Quotes of Ridiculous - somelinesforyou

“ Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ”

- Horace

“ Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ”

- St. Francis of Assisi

“ The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ”

- Peter Ustinov

“ There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. ”

- Cicero

“ Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ”

- Maurice Freehill

“ Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ”

- Geroge Lorimer

“ The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ”

- Daisaku Ikeda

“ It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ”

- George Eliot

“ From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. ”

- Napoleon

“ Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ”

- Unknown

“ The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. ”

- Evan Esar

“ There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh. ”

- Catullus

“ Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ”

- Unknown

“ What a silly thing to do, he thought. What a goddam silly thing to do. You wont even be there to watch their faces. ”

- James Jones

“ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth. ”

- Sam Shepard

“ Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites. ”

- Plato

“ There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ How now, foolish rheum! - King John. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. ”

- Richard Mitchell

“ I can live without it all — love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Nothing is impossible to the man who will. ”

- Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

“ My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd. ”

- Robert Ingersoll

“ WOMAN: How does time travel work, anyway? Impossible and absurd, I've read.TIME TRAVELER: According to today's physics and logic, that's true. They'll learn better in the future. ”

- Poul Anderson

“ Justice without wisdom is impossible. ”

- James Anthony Froude
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