C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Absurdity
Absurdity refutes itself.
Bartholin.
Do not sanction an absurdity.
Mme. de Genlis.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
Atterbury.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Haliburton.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Goldsmith.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Landor.
Of all the authorities to which men can be called to submit, the wisdom of our ancestors is the most whimsically absurd.
Jeremy Taylor.