Silly Quotes - Page 6

• We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 49, 1799.

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• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Just Being, Bedroom

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

  John Major

  Clever, Stupid, People

  1991 Quoted in the Observer, 7 Jul.

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• Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Marriage, Crazy

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• I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

  John Mayer

  Stupid, Curves, Giving

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Country, Athlete

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• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

  Danica McKellar

  Self Esteem, Math, People

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• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Crazy, Morality

  A Book of Burlesques ch. 11 (1920)

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• Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Crazy, Birth Control

  The Last Goon Show of All

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• Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

  "Michael Morpurgo's five top tips for writing" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2011.

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• My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

  Mike Myers

  Father, Inspiration, Guy

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• My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

  Mike Myers

  Dad, Laughing, My Dad

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• At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Fiction, Littles

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• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Thinking, Done

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Young, You Re Stupid

  Launch.com interview, October 30, 1998.

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• I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

  Michael Palin

  Stupid, Wanted, Persons

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• Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

  Jane Pauley

  Call Me

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• I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mother, Growing Up, Drinking

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupidity, President, Fool

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, President, Hats

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  Dan Rather

  Stupid, Order, Dumb

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• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Christmas, Country

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

  George A. Romero

  Notebook, Fun, Zombie

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