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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin? — Frederick Douglass

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. — Paul Fry

In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry. — Neil L. Andersen

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. — Honore De Balzac

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Ridicule is the best test of truth. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Few targets of ridicule are as easy to hit as owners and handlers of competitive show dogs. — Meghan Daum

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Really? Okay, let's roll." I didn't want to learn to drive in his beast of a vehicle, but I wasn't going to take his not so subtle ridicule either. — Elle Klass

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. — Edward Gibbon

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart. — Garth Brooks

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. — John Stuart Mill

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule. — Ralph Fiennes

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America? — Glenn Beck

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz

Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect — Michael Bassey Johnson

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. — Louisa May Alcott

He knew that so long as the vestiges of his old self remained with him, his new self would never be safe from ridicule and incomprehension. — A. Igoni Barrett

We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule. — Frank Skinner

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. — Jane Austen

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. — Leslie Feinberg

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. — Oliver Goldsmith

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. — Ambrose Bierce

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. — Marty Rubin

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

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson

In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media. — D. James Kennedy

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule. — Patricia Moyes

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. — Saul Alinsky

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. — William Hazlitt

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. — Beverley Mitchell

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else. — Joshua Malina

I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully. — Robin Hobb

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. — Michael McKean

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. — Oliver Goldsmith

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Three years to make a book, five lines to ridicule it, and the quotations wrong. — Albert Camus

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. — Rajneesh

If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong. — Dillon Burroughs

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. — Rowan Atkinson

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. — Madame De Stael

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. — Horace

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. — Adam Ant

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel De Unamuno

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Silence can be the worst ridicule. — Helen Nielsen

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

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity. — C.E. O'Grady

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. — Neel Mukherjee

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying. — Anthony Liccione

The fear of being ridiculed is gruesome than death. — Aniruddha Sastikar

So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm.. — Lorraine Heath

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. — William Safire

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule. — Mary Higgins Clark

I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore. — E.J. Copperman

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers. — Joseph Addison

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule. — Joy Williams

Ridicule is a public confession of fear. — Vanna Bonta

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. — Vanna Bonta

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. — Albert Schweitzer

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history. — Bernard Hopkins

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule. — Al Franken

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule. — Matthew Specktor

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. — Andre Gide

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain

Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance. — David Mitchell

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. — Frederick Douglass

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. — John Bunyan

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

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

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. — Dorothy Parker

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace

Love can bear anything better than ridicule. — Caitlin Thomas

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza

Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule. — Jim Gaffigan

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also. — Boyd K. Packer

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

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. — Thomas Jefferson

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor. — Alison Jackson

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. — Jean De La Bruyere

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. — Matt Bomer

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! — Dita Von Teese

Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is — J. Allen Hynek

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults. — Franck Ribery

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers' ... — Emily Carr

Delicious it was, the hatred between us, or so I thought. Such unfamiliar excitement, to have him there to ridicule and despise. — Anne Rice

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

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule. — Lord Chesterfield

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck