(409 quotes found)
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad”
Stephen Leacock
“Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.”
Geraldo Rivera
“It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.”
Barbra Streisand
“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.”
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.”
Richard Aldington
“W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight.”
Christina Ricci
“Well what's wrong with ain't? And as for saying 'Rizzuto slud into second' it just ain't natural. Sounds silly to me. Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.”
Dizzy Dean
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.”
Angela Carter
“Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.”
Charles Lamb
Bookmark
