Ridicule famous quotes

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.
-- Alberto Juantorena

#World #Originality #Ridicule

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

#Coward #Tests #Ridicule

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
-- Arlene Francis

#Tolerance #Intolerance #Ridicule

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Ridiculous #Neighbor #Ridicule

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Philosophy #Ridicule

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
-- Blaise Pascal

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Ridicule

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
-- Caitlin Thomas

#Bears #Ridicule

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
-- Daniel Okrent

#Pundits #Ridicule

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
-- David Byrne

#House #Tin #Ridicule

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.
-- Esther Forbes

#Monkeys #Ridicule

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Ridicule #Dishonour

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
-- Frantz Fanon

#Mother #Children #Ridicule

And took for truth the test of ridicule.
-- George Crabbe

#Truth #Tests #Ridicule

Silence can be the worst ridicule.
-- Helen Nielsen

#Silence #Worst #Ridicule

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
-- Horace

#Ridicule #Employed

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
-- James Howard Kunstler

#Destiny #Ridiculous #Ridicule

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Weapons #World #Ridicule

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
-- Molly Ivins

#Rejoice #Ridicule

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
-- Muriel Spark

#Weapons #Honorable #Ridicule

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Ridicule #Can Not

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.
-- Rhonda Britten

#Not Good Enough #Rejected #Ridicule

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
-- Saul

#Men #Weapons #Ridicule

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
-- Vanna Bonta

#Confession #Ridicule

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
-- Walter Savage Landor

#Ridicule

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
-- William Warburton

#Tests #Reason #Ridicule

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.
-- David R. Mains

#Christian #Religious #Ridicule

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.
-- Ellis

#Heart #Fool #Ridicule

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
-- Steven Novella

#Claims #Ridicule #Deserve

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
-- W. E. B. Griffin

#Writing #Ridicule