What silly people wits are! [ Beaumarchais ]
Mere wishes are silly fishes. [ Proverb ]
How blest the humble cotter's fate!
He woos his simple dearie;
The silly bogles, wealth, and state,
Can never make them eerie. [ Burns ]
It is a silly game where nobody wins. [ Proverb ]
It is a silly bargain where nobody gets. [ Proverb ]
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [ Cat ]
It is a silly goose that comes to a fox's sermon. [ Proverb ]
Your great admirers are mostly but silly fellows. [ Proverb ]
The tattler’s tongue is ever dancing a silly jig. [ Proverb ]
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. [ Proverb ]
It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]
That is a woeful silly sheep that goes to the wolf to confess. [ Proverb ]
Silly dogs are more angry with the stone, than with the hand that flung it. [ Proverb ]
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. [ Swift ]
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds.
A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]
The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]