Quotes About Mockery

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

One of their sting-elimination strategies is to pause, when insulted, to consider whether what the insulter said is true. If it is, there is little reason to be upset. Suppose, for example, that someone mocks us for being bald when we in fact are bald: "Why is it an insult," Seneca asks, "to be told what is self-evident?"3

The first tip I would offer to those wishing to give Stoicism a try is to practice what I have referred to as stealth Stoicism: You would do well, I think, to keep it a secret that you are a practicing Stoic. (This would have been my own strategy, had I not taken it upon myself to become a teacher of Stoicism.) By practicing Stoicism stealthily, you can gain its benefits while avoiding one significant cost: the teasing and outright mockery of your friends, relatives, neighbors, and coworkers.

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.Mock on, mock on—'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again.

He loves to sit and hear me sing,Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.

Come let us mock at the greatThat had such burdens on the mindAnd toiled so hard and lateTo leave some monument behind,Nor thought of the leveling wind.

nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust

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