"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully……" — Walter Scott
"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble."
More Absurd Quotes
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
- Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
- To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
- Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
- Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
- When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
- My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
- The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
- I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
- The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
- In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes