We mock the things we are to be.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that…

— Stephen Fry

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in…

— Charles Colson

“If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to…

— Eric Rucker Eddison

“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they…

— Lamin Sanneh

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he…

— Tony Horwitz

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably…

— Raquel Cepeda

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

— Anna Quindlen

When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

— Jon Lovett

“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so…

— Caitlin Crews

My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a…

— Aeriel Miranda