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«People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not»
«There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.»
Author: Josef Skvorecky
| About:
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
exception, fall short, fall short of, influenced, ridiculous, The Age, weaknesses
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
damnable, expense, momentary, position, ridiculous, The Pleasure
«Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
absolutely, follows, precedes, preceding, ridiculous, the Wash, washing, wash out
«The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, available, drug, drug addiction, effect, exposure, illness, intoxicant, intoxicants, psychological, ridiculous, somehow, speaking, totally
«She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at present, composedly, entries, entry, good part, hole, mouse, paw, pawing, paws, ridiculous, sentinel, sentinels, sits, tuck, tucked
«Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
| About:
Fashion,
Funny,
Self-Awareness
| Keywords:
ass, beret, bet, ridiculous, wake up, wearing, you bet
«There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
one-step, ridiculous, sublime, the sublime
«There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
ceased, emotions, ridiculous
«New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let 'em be unmanly) yet are follow'd»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
customs, nay, ridiculous, unmanly
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