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Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
Idle hands make fretful minds.
I like being absurd. Being silly.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear ...
It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
Irrationality loves company.
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
seemed silly to Faith. And offensive
Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
egocentric melodrama.
See the ridiculous in everything.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
caughtoutedness.
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.
Adorkable. It's in its own category.
covetousness. But,
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Unreasonable is very relative.
Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
obsequious courting of the mob
sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She
Idleness leads to insolence.
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
You're contumacious.
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
Acting silly is one of the primal pleasures.
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity
the endless flow of life and death
than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
There is a precise cleverness which itself is unjust; And there is one who is offensive that justice may be revealed.
Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.
The absurdity of it all.
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
You're incorrigible," she said. Gathering up his socks and shoes. he crawled into the driver's seat and said, "No, I'm recidivous." Katie blinked at him. "What does that mean?" Giving her a smacking kiss, he said, "Incorrigible."
-Katie & Chase
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
A life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examination, reflection, and resolution.
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
The ignorant pronounce it Frood
To cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud.
The silliest people are usually the most tenacious of their opinions.
Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.
Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
The excess of all good things is mischievous.
Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation
Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.
I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.
Vain until the bitter end.
Fuss is the froth of business.
Fretting rises from our determination to have our own way. Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans. Fretting is wickedness for a child of God.
What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
One is always willfully absurd ... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.
Do I strike you as a frivolous man, Kelly?"
I look at him, sitting there in another thousand dollar suit. Pompous? Yes. Self-centered? Yes. Careless? "No.
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.
Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks.
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.
to be so honestly blind to the follies and
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
anti-intellectual
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.
It's the irrational things that interest me.
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
To fuss is human; to rant, divine!
Now I know exactly what Ben meant when he said he finds it difficult to control his indignation in the presence of absurdity. He thinks my insecurities are absurd, and he took it upon himself to prove that to me.