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Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, excess

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about country

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about sublime

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, deeds, beginning

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Quote by Agatha Christie about love, thinking, people

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Quote by Agatha Christie about crime, city

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

Quote by Carmen Electra

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about nothing

Its like, I don't understand anything about sports. I have no interest. I mean, I like boxing, but I could no more go to a horse race... I feel ridiculous doing it.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about sport, interest

The longer your campaign goes on, the more ridiculously powerful you'll have to make the villains to present a challenge to your demi-god characters.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about criminals, present, god

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous, by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Quote by James Payn about philosophy, poverty, hope

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about ridicule, people

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Quote by Charles Percy Snow about happiness

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Quote by Olive Schreiner about opinion

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Quote by Jacques Derrida about character, temptation, being

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Quote by Jim Bishop about time, present, impossible, past, future, nothing

Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime.

Quote by Jean Francois Marmontel about ridicule, sublime

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about opinion, painting, world

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Quote by James Cameron about failure, purpose