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  • Bernard Mandeville If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?
    The Fable of the Bees Remark H, p. 95
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Terry Eagleton It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Robert Lynd It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are human beings.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Boris Becker It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Bobby Moynihan Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Horace Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • John Dryden Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • O. J. Simpson NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
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  • André Gide Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Russell Hoban 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
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Arthur Machen Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Wallace Stevens Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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