My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

You need to be silly to be funny.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening

My revenue is the silly cheat