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"silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way." »Jane Austen
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"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now." »P Barnum
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"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence." »Seneca
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way." »Charles Dickens
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers." »C. Ryland
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"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." »Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." »Wittgenstein
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"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment." »Horace
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"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." »Rose Dorothy Franken
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately." »Michel de Montaigne
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard." »Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995
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"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
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"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor." »William Feather
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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity." »Christopher Morley
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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." »Christopher Morley
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"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock." »Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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"There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators." »Will Rogers
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"A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime." »Greek Proverb
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"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators." »Will Rogers
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"And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." »Galations 69 Bible
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." »Plutarch
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"Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends." »Larry Wilde
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"Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play." »Jerry Coleman
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"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy." »Publilius Syrus
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"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." »John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
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"It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him." »Boileau
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"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." »Paramahansa Yogananda
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