(381 quotes found)
“I feel a little bit ridiculous. I've been listening to that 'No. 1' album by The Beatles and it kicks the crap out of our album, but it's still kind of you to vote (for us).”
Dave Matthews Band
“Some of the stuff we dealt with was just ridiculous.”
Geraldine Ferraro
“A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr”
Sydney Smith
“Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.”
Horace
“We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.”
Mark Twain
“It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let 'em be unmanly) yet are follow'd”
William Shakespeare
“Be careful going in search of adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find.”
William Least Heat Moon
“Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.”
William Hazlitt
