We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and… — Seth Copy Share Image
The only way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you cant ignore it, than top it. If you cant… — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Ironically, I am reliably informed that Michael McIntyre doesn't actually have a "man drawer", and invented the concept in order to ridicule… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The ridicule you may endure from others when you speak up for animals can help you to hone your skills, enabling you… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable, advice on how to succeed, coming from an unsuccessful man, will be received with poor grace or even… — James Nathan Miller Copy Share Image
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I long ago vowed, as Batman did before me, never to make fun of stuff that people couldn't help. Because it's (1)… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment.… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
“There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world." "There goes the… — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo,… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“He became an object of ridicule in 1993 when a paper published an intercepted phone call in which he told his lover… — Peter Graff Copy Share Image
You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period… — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
“A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously… — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip… — Beverley Mitchell Copy Share Image