ludicrous quotes

A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Letters and Social  Aims,'The Comic'.

There are even times when any assumption of dignity becomes ludicrous, and the traveller must, as Mungo Park once had to do,'lay down as a rule to make himself as useless and as insignificant as possible, as the only means of recovering his liberty'.

- Sir Francis Galton
  The Art of  Travel.