Ridiculous Quotes

Ridiculous Quote of the day

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

Let me tell you now a man of my position can afford to look ridiculous at any time.

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.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

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.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I've learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

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

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?