ABSURDITIES

Related Subjects: Mockery, Nonsense, Ridicule

1. Absurdity refutes itself.—A. Bartholini
   
   
2. Do not sanction an absurdity.—Mme. de Genlis
   
   
3. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.—Goldsmith
   
   
4. The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.—Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
   
   
5. Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.—W. S. Landor
   
   
6. There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.—Schopenhauer