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Ridiculous Quotes - Page 6

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.54, Lulu.com

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

"Amid furor, Pentagon kills terrorism futures market". www.cnn.com. July 30, 2003.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

R. D. Laing (2008). “Knots”, p.68, Marbot Ediciones

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

"The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.37, Tin House Books

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.38, Ardent Media

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486