Paul Ryan Quotes

Stupid to the power of stupid.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I'm a one-man idiot.

... a fool

… one of the silliest devils I ever knew

That crack-brained harlequin and semi-lunatic, George Francis Train! He is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. He may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!