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Quotes about Silliness

Proper stupidity is fascinating.
- Ricky Gervais
Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.
- Peter Kreeft
Most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.
- Og Mandino
I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.
- Kesha
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
- Victor Hugo
Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.
- Victor Hugo
the day you stopped appreciating the sublimely silly things in life was the day you became a dried-up old turd.
- Candace Bushnell
As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.
- Mark Twain
They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.
- Ernest Hemingway
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.
- Anonymous
I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
- Stephen Colbert
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.
- Teresa of Avila