Absurdity refutes itself. [ Bartholin ]

Do not sanction an absurdity. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

Absurdities die of self-strangulation. [ Haliburton ]

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. [ Froude ]

Absolute individualism is an absurdity. [ Amiel ]

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative. [ Goldsmith ]

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. [ Landor ]

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity at that supposition from whence they flow. [ Atterbury ]

Of all the authorities to which men can be called to submit, the wisdom of our ancestors is the most whimsically absurd. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. [ Addison ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]