Silly Quotes
1456 quotes by 1050 authors
-
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
— Thomas Wolfe
-
Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
— Shel Silverstein
-
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
— David Mitchell
-
You’re going to be my grandmother.†“You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to…
— Julia Quinn
-
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
-
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart…
— Edgar Allan Poe
-
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other,…
— Joseph Conrad
-
You forgot to cough!†he said. “Sorry.†She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.†“Now, Peder,…
— Shannon Hale
-
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
— Groucho Marx
-
After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I…
— Matthew Quick
-
You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow.…
— Kerstin Gier
-
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story…
— Paula Danziger
-
It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love.…
— Maeve Binchy
-
I adore Wilkie Collins,†Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?†“Not at you,†said Will, grinning, “more…
— Cassandra Clare
-
That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank…
— Rick Riordan
-
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
— Anton Chekhov
-
Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events.…
— Paul Krugman
-
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and…
— Ray Bradbury
-
I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
— Ernest Hemingway
-
I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at…
— Margaret Mitchell
Who Wrote These Silly Quotes
1,050 authors contributed a total of 1,456 Silly Quotes, led by these top contributors: