Silly
Happy; fortunate; blessed.
Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
Weak; helpless; frail.
Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
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Silly Quotations
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
Greta Garbo
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Horace
Silly Translations
silly in Italian is stolto, sciocco
silly in Latin is leviculus
silly in Spanish is tonto, necio
silly in Swedish is dumt, dum, enfaldig
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