Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous
David Hume
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so
Charles Caleb Colton
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese Proverb
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
Paul Klee
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
Juvenal
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances
Joseph Addison
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
There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Colton, Charles Caleb
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Plato
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee