This brought me back to common existence, as if I had been shaken by a wise hand out of all the silliness of superstition.

What more vain than so to assert a disputable problem: oaths (like wagers) are in such cases no arguments, except silliness in the users of them.

One discoverable in all silliness to all men but himself, and you may take any man's knowledge of him better than his own.

Their one cry to an advocate of improvement is some sagacious silliness about recognising the limits of the practicable in politics, and seeing the necessity of adapting theories to facts.

Davies calmly and cuttingly observed, "It is much more like silliness than madness!"