Silly People Quotes:

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

- Bernard de Mandeville

source: Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Daughter, Silly, People, Courtesans, Rigour

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

source: "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Dream, Being Silly, Silly People

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

- Pam Brown

topic: Friendship, Silly, Phones, Letter Writing, Wisdom And Friendship

As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

- T. E. Lawrence

topic: Silly, Fighting, Long, Silly People

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

- Danielle Steel

topic: Summer, Children, Lying, Long Day, Silly People

The best things in life are silly.

- Scott Adams

topic: Inspirational, Stupid, Silly, Dilbert, Silly People

I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

- Alicia Silverstone

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Clueless, Thinking, Very Stupid, Stupidest

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

- Alan Minter

topic: Funny, Boxing, Dumb, Stupid Sports, Funny Sports

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

- Brooke Shields

source: Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Really Stupid, Very Stupid

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Funny, Stupid, Race, Funny Bush, Solar System

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Motivational, Pain, Attitude, Great Positive Attitude, Positive Attitude And Success

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

- Steven Levenkron

topic: Silly, Self, People, Silly People

But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Believe, Silly, People, State Of Mind, Silly People

...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.

- C. D. Broad

topic: Silly, Mean, Writing, Lunatic Asylums, Silly People

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

- Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett - In 1974". Forbes Article, www.forbes.com. April 30, 2008.

topic: Silly, Investing Money, People, Investing Your Time, Silly People

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

- George Eliot

topic: Silly, Writing, People, Silly People

Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.

- Horace Walpole

topic: Fashion, Silly, People, Silly People

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

- Doris Day

topic: Silly, Men, People, Silly People

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

- Max Born

topic: Atheist, Silly, Men, Silly People

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

- Kabir

topic: Silly, Healing, Names, Silly People

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1030, e-artnow

topic: Wise, Silly, People, Frivolous, Silly People

You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Baby, Sweet, Clever, War Paint, Silly People

I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

- Thomas Sowell

source: "Live: Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Isaac, www.aei.org. January 1, 2004.

topic: Silly, People, Soldier, Silly People