Ridiculous quotes
463 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it."
"Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters."
"My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it."
"Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others."
"It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring."
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"Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it."
"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life"
"Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing."
"Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous."
"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it."
"There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable."
"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."
"Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?"
"I was going to come in and push you down the stairs."
"You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery."
"It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful."
"When in doubt, be ridiculous."
"The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed."
"See the ridiculous in everything."
"I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous."
"She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous."
"People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!"
"Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully."
"That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed."
"In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask."
