Ridiculous

Famous quotes containing the word ridiculous:

““We’ll encounter opposition, won’t we, if we give women the same education that we give to men,” Socrates says to Galucon. “For then we’d have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem.” ... Convention and habit are women’s enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)