Ridiculous

Famous quotes containing the word ridiculous:

“It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)