Ridiculous Quotes

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

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

Gilles Duceppe

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
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