Competition Quote by Robert A. Baker

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

— Jean Cocteau

See the ridiculous in everything.

— Robert Smith

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

— Thomas Nagel

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

— Jules Renard

To me absurdity is the only reality

— Frank Zappa

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

— Michael Helm

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

— Henry Fielding

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

— Bill Maher

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

— M. C. Escher