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Quotes About Ridiculous

ABSONANT  (A'BSONANT)   adj.[See ABSONOUS.]Contrary to reason, wide from the purpose.   ABSONOUS  (A'BSONOUS)   adj.[absonus, Lat. ill-sounding.]Absurd, contrary to reason.
~ Samuel Johnson
Gomers," said Howie, "gomers are what's going on." "You mean old people? We took care of old people too." "Gomers are different," said Eddie. "They didn't exist when you were a tern, 'cause then they used to die. Now they don't." "Ridiculous," said the Leggo emphatically
~ Samuel Shem
And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I can do to not melt into a fit of giggles. [...] If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
~ Sara Gruen
Honestly, I said. What? Come on. You have to admit it's sort of ridiculous. What is? Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. You know, I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. The sa-woon. The what? Wes, come on, I said. Are you seriously not aware of how girls stare at you?
~ Sarah Dessen
She should have looked ridiculous, standing there wet and bedraggled in her silly underwear, but she looked magnificent. Like some kind of mythical goddess rising from the mists of time. Statuesque, utterly feminine. Breathtaking.
~ Sarah Mayberry
The school didn't want us mixing with the rest of the senior class. Which was ridiculous. We had ESP, not Ebola. A curriculum had been tailored just for us, to help us prepare for what lay ahead. Not that anyone knew what lay ahead. It's not like there had ever been an entire class of telepaths before. Yup.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Vedi, io non riesco a capacitarmi che il genere umano abbia così poco cervello da rendersi ridicolo in modo tanto volgare.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He's poodlishly ridiculous.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He lived in a huge, ridiculous, doodad-covered, trash-filled two-story horror of a house that stumbled, staggered, and dribbled right up to the edge of a great shadowy forest
~ John Bellairs
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.
~ John Calvin
How to defend yourself against a banana
~ John Cleese
Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries
~ John Cleese
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
~ Christopher Morley
Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
~ Julian Fellowes
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
~ Paula Poundstone
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
~ Desmond Tutu
The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.
~ Barry Webster
Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.
~ Blake Nelson
Perhaps, it is strange or ridiculous for you, but I am going to retire from traditional love affairs; anyhow, I will stay sharing my love as the volunteer lover.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
feel ridiculous," she muttered. "And I feel like a jerk for getting thrown
~ Eileen Goudge
Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd.
~ Anthony Marais
Job interview is often so structured and conducted that when the interviewers want to select a candidate, they even make a good sense out of his most ridiculous answer; but if they get hell bent to reject the interviewee, then even the smartest reply from him is dubbed by them as nonsense.
~ Anuj Somany
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
~ Aristotle
But how do you get started when you've lost your skills? Is a sixty-five-year-old businessman just supposed to call another guy and suggest a playdate? Ridiculous! Actually . . . maybe not so ridiculous.
~ Arthur C. Brooks