Absurd Quotes

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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words. — Sallust
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a… — B. H. Liddell Hart
I try and remind our viewers that climate is always in a state of flux and yes, the world has warmed over the last 25… — Topper Shutt
Iâ€™m actually trying to make sense of the world.Â Thereâ€™s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. — Yue Minjun
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their… — Plato
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.… — Christian Carion
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. — Milton Glaser
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one… — Thomas A. Edison
"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just… — Jennifer Lawrence
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. — Danny DeVito
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best… — Alice Hegan Rice
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off — Rex Stout
Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive… — Louis Aragon
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be… — Alva Myrdal
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter.… — Charles Grandison Finney

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