Quotes About Ridicule

I'm tired of getting made fun of.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Then pretty soon Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it.

Seneca[1] rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,-the readier he is with his tongue.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

theology, the doctrine of God, which is always attacked and ridiculed by philosophy, which claims to be wisdom itself. And medicine, which always questions the validity of philosophy, and doesn't consider theology a science but a superstition…

A few months since the idea of witches riding through the air upon a broomstick, and that of philosophers upon a bag of smoke, would have appeared equally impossible and ridiculous

Las imágenes de vuestra creación, así como de la mía propia, contienen —desde una perspectiva racional— una buena dosis de ridiculez, dado que la intención de la perfección que no logra su propósito es tanto más ridícula cuanta mayor sabiduría se haya empleado en ella. Por ese motivo, la tonterías expresadas por un filósofo resultan más amenas que las tonterías expresadas por un necio.

Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.

I like to make fun of Jeffy [of Family Circus] the most, because I know the grown-up Jeff Keane personally and enjoy ridiculing him.

They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Le malheur émousse le sens du ridicule

El ridículo es una especie de roña que el enfermo siempre descubre tarde, cuando ya se tendió a su alrededor un cordón sanitario.

y no hay nada peor que matarse, hacer el ridículo y, para colmo, no enterarse de que uno lo ha hecho.

cuando yo veía a los pajes ocupados en empolvar las cabezas de los héroes a quienes servían, me pregunté si aquella operación no era la menos a propósito dentro de un buque, donde todos los instantes son preciosos y donde estorba siempre todo lo que no sea de inmediata necesidad para el servicio. Pero la moda era entonces tan tirana como ahora, y aun en aquel tiempo imponía de un modo apremiante sus enfadosas ridiculeces.

M]y father discourag'd me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one.

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.