Quotes About Ridiculous

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

no better than Bellyfluff, Sillystuff, or Starchyruff;

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

She was 'well travelled', the most ridiculous expression if you belonged to a species that had only left its own planet to visit its moon.

Am I the only creature with a vagina who thinks that weddings are ridiculous? I'm going to elope. Just me, my hubby, and a minister on a beach in Jamaica.

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

So I'm cruising down the road and the object of my thoughts is racing down the street, screaming that her father is a cop. A public servant, very flattering" " I like a man in uniform" He laughed. 'Do you like pizza?' 'What a ridiculous question. I suppose you're going to ask me if I like pasta next?

A tortoise out in winter?" cheeped the bird. " Ridiculous! " "No it isn't," snapped Shelley. "Oh no? Then let's see you fly home and cuddle up with your family like I can. Ha-cheep-ha!" "Of course I can't fly," thought Shelley. "I can't even hop!

He hated cocktail parties--"you see the same people again and again and it becomes boring"--and found the Westerners who hung around the Peking club "rather ridiculous. Very small frogs in a very small pond acting like they were big frogs in an ocean.

Sometimes you can be very stupid!

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

The campaign staff, now suddenly in a position to snag West Wing jobs—career- and history-making jobs—had to see this odd, difficult, even ridiculous, and, on the face of it, ill-equipped person in a new light.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes, but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

What a weak, credulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the minds of men. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

All baby clothes are adorable, whoever they're meant for (and in the end, of course, they're meant for the parents). All remind you of how vulnerable an infant is, how wholly incompetent and in need of adult largess. You don't look at blue clothes and think "strong" or pink clothes and think "fragile." You look at everything in these micromatized dimensions and think, "How precious! How ridiculous! What was evolution thinking of?

Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.

He railed at ecclesiastical bureaucracy, particularly the theological hairsplitting and heresy-hunting that had come to characterize Presbyterian conclaves: "These things in the Presbyterian church, their contentions and janglings are so ridiculous, so wicked, so outrageous, that no doubt there is a jubilee in hell every year, about the time of the meeting of the General Assembly."8