Quotes of: Ridiculous Keyword

Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not to do the ridiculous ...

The Broom of the System

Ridicule kills.

French

Ridicule is the test of truth.

Traditional

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

Chinese

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

William Warburton

I want to suffer so that I may love.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

Fernando Pessoa

Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just he...

Trey Parker

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fun...

Rowan Atkinson

Do not ridicule the thin-bearded when you yourself have no beard.

Arabian

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Cassandra Clare

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

Philippine

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Lion Feuchtwanger

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Jackie Mason

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply...

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

Traditional

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

Three Lives

If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was hatched from a cosmic egg? Or that Xenu, th...

David G. McAfee