#laughable

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed? ↗

— Justina Chen

#artists #laughable #memorable-works #pushing-the-limits #ridicule

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humorous #ironic #irony #laughable #change

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#fault #laughable #laughter #only #vanity

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clearly #laughable #men #more #nothing

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#i #laugh #laughable #while #will

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#head #i #laughable #like #males

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. ↗

— James Thurber

#demonstrable #dog #fun #got #laughable

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#certainly #i #intention #laughable #might

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#equally #lamentable #laughable #many #much

No one is laughable who laughs at himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#laughable #laughs #who