Quotes About Ridiculous Behavior

#1. Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

Tom Robbins

#2. Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

Dorothy Parker

#3. This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Northrop Frye

#4. Nothing wrecks any kind of love more effectively than the discovery that your previously acceptable behavior has become ridiculous.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.

Will Smith

#6. Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Moliere

#7. Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

William Shakespeare

#8. All the POWs worked hard for their captors, the North Koreans. We had been told that if we worked hard, we would be treated fairly. Instead, we were exploited.

Young-Bok Yoo

#9. Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

Shulamith Firestone

#10. Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

Reggie Bush

#11. Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

Ian Fleming

#12. The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

#13. The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

Nick Vujicic

#14. Just because you have been abused in your life ... doesn't give you the right to go out and abuse others.

Timothy Pina

#15. When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.

Travis Bradberry

#16. I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

Susan Powter

#17. To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Carroll Quigley

#18. When you're not playing your head can drop, and you can get a bit negative. I try to tell them that there are a lot of things they can't control, selection being one of them, and that they should just try to stay positive.

Filo Tiatia

#19. Traveling is more fun
hell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

Bill Bryson