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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! – Wallace Stevens	added by anonymous 11 years ago
It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece. – Burton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him. – Boileau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. – John Locke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Wittgenstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. – John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard. – Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. – Michel de Montaigne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. – Democritus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. – Christopher Morley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 15 years ago
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately. – Michel de Montaigne	added by anonymous 15 years ago
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	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. – Christopher Morley	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. – Shel Silverstein	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. – William Feather	added by anonymous 15 years ago
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment. – Horace	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. – Isaac Bashevis Singer	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. – Democritus	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Dorothy Franken	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. – Russell Hoban	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers. – C. Ryland	added by anonymous 15 years ago

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