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Ridiculous Quotes - Page 8

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.134, Candlewick Press

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

James Howard Kunstler (2003). “The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3297, e-artnow

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.101, Springer Science & Business Media

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.

Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.10, Macmillan