Laughable Quotes
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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— "An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.
donald phillip verene— p. 169 (Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997))
The US its bankrupt mortgage institutions nationalised and its gigantic war machine effectively funded by foreign borrowing is in steep decline. With its financial system in the worst mess since the 1930s, the west's ability to shape events is dwindling by the day. Sermonising about "law-based international relations" is laughable after Iraq, and at bottom not much more than nostalgia for a vanished hegemony.
john n. gray— "Folly of the progressive fairytale," The Observer (2008-09-08)
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 282. (Helen Zimmern translation)
The kind of social production that Wikipedia represents has turned from a laughable utopia to a practical reality. That's the biggest gift that Wikipedia has given to us – a vision of practical utopia that allows us to harness the more sociable, human aspects of who we are to effective collective action.
— Yochai Benkler, "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary", The Atlantic, 13 January 2011
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
— Salarino, scene i
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Biographia Literaria, Chapter XV (1817)
