(381 quotes found)
“I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.”
Carl Andre
“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”
Albert Einstein
“It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind”
Samuel Johnson
“For my part, I find even eternal damnation less incredible, certainly less ridiculous, than this lame and impotent conclusion which we are asked to admire as the supreme effort of Omnipotence”
Bertrand Russell
“Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.”
Dar Williams
“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”
Marcus Aurelius
“From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”
“Our defense is playing ridiculous right now. As long as they play like that, we can put up 50 points if we want to.”
Chad Johnson
