Ridiculous

Famous quotes containing the word ridiculous:

“We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)