The wound caused by fire heals in its time but the burn inflicted by an inflamed tongue never heals. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Let them ridicule you, laugh at you, hurt you & ignore you but never let them stop you.” — Apoorve Dubey Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend. — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build… — Nicholas Klein Copy Share Image
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
The left wants to transform America away from founding ideals, and this is it. And they know it. And they're doing everything… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller?… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
![“The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]” quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a3f/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_character_the-qualities-we-have-do-not-make-us-so_550676.png)
