Laughable Quotes

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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot… — Edwin Percy Whipple
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too… — David Gilmour
When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them.… — Terrence Malick
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. — Plato
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. — Charles Kennedy
The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that… — Tamara Mellon
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia. — Samuel West
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When… — Chet Baker
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. — Michael J. Gelb
I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over… — Robert Draper
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable,… — Will Arnett
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of… — Lynn Margulis
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention. — Joaquin Phoenix
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in… — Herman Melville
Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one… — Sherman Alexie
It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again. — Libba Bray
Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our… — Milan Kundera

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