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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Sophia Loren

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

Joseph Addison

There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so

Charles Caleb Colton

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto Che Guevara

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.

Sir Richard Steele

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious

Robert Blair

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous

Henry Fielding

We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.

Old French Saying

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous.

Jim Dator

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Joanna Baillie

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Plato

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous

David Hume

There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Juvenal

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Albert Camus

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Chinese Proverb

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him look ridiculous.

J. B. Matthews