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23 quotesI have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Humor
Edward Albee
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fashion
Fred A. Allen
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Retirement
George Burns
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Greatness
Albert Camus
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Certainty
Chinese Proverb
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!
Inflation
Shelby Friedman
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Names
Thomas C. Haliburton
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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Politicians and Politics
Roy Hattersley
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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Peace
Kin Hubbard
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
Quality
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Morality
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Age and Aging
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
Manners
Proverb
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature
Jules Renard
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Confession
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Solemnity
Olive Schreiner
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Happiness
C(harles) P(ercy) Snow
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Certainty
Voltaire
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Enemies
Voltaire
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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
Prayer
Voltaire
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun