Quotes About Ridiculous

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Not many weapons could relieve a man of his underwear.

It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying, whenever the seemingly prosaic old world lifts the veil on its synchronicities. Meanwhile the seemingly prosaic old world shrugs: Hey, don't ask me. I just work here.

The ridiculous arises out of a moral contrast, in which two things are brought together before the mind in an innocent way.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

It may be that most men do not care how they look, so long as they do not look ridiculous, and their conception of looking ridiculous is that they should look different from anybody else... In regard to shaving, the view of the conventionalist is that it does not much matter whether we shave or grow beards provided we all shave or grow beards at the same time, and ninety-nine men out of a hundred are conventionalists.

Weder Seele noch Gehirn der Menschen haben in historischen Zeiten erweislich zugenommen, die Fähigkeiten jedenfalls waren längst komplett! Daher ist unsere Präsumption, im Zeitalter des sittlichen Fortschritts zu leben, höchst lächerlich

The mind is apt to make some efforts to prove the fitness between its qualities and the condition of its owner, though it may often fail, and render that ridiculous which was only hated before.

I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

We're all ridiculous… all of us. It's as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.

Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

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

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

In moments the whole assembly was rocking with jeering laughter as I stood ridiculously before them. My hands clenched uncontrollably; I had been prepared for any humiliation but the martyrdom of laughter.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Zweig viewed the Nazis as beneath contempt. Their doctrine and world outlook being so obviously ridiculous and morally odious, why waste time refuting them?

That silly pimp!