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silliness Quotes

12 of the best book quotes about silliness
01
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
02
“Silly old Bear,” he said.
03
“Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
04
“There’s nothing wise and nothing silly Wasn’t thought of long ago. ”
05
″‘You couldn’t have it if you did want it,’ the Queen said. ‘The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.’ ‘It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,″ Alice objected. ‘No, it can’t,’ said the Queen. ‘It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know.‘”
06
″‘I only wish I had such eyes,’ the King remarked in a fretful tone. ‘To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!‘”
07
“Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.”
08
“ ‘So you don’t care that she’s just using you? Why don’t you go over there and tell Trace.’ He laughed as though I’d just dropped the punchline to some silly, little kid’s joke.”
09
“Don’t let them slow you down. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
10
“It is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.”
11
″‘We’ve eloped,’ Christina said to Aunt Grace. She had not meant to use the silly word, but it had got stuck in her head, and she was too befuddled with cold to catch it before it slipped out.”
12
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Source: Chapter 2, Paragraph 7
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