The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“It is time we become an aid to each other's light, not an impediment.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Baby boomer media like 'The Times' is a laughingstock, and we should do whatever we can to ridicule it. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got… — Riaad Moosa Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett Copy Share Image
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ignore the critics… Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different!” — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry. — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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