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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. -- Charles Simmons
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. -- Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. -- Horace
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. -- Walter Scott
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. -- Saul
Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ridicule is a public confession of fear. -- Vanna Bonta
Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous. -- James Howard Kunstler
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible. -- Barney Frank
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. -- Horace
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age ... -- H. P. Blavatsky
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. -- Muriel Spark
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. -- Horace
Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. -- Vanna Bonta
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. -- Walter Savage Landor
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule. -- Ralph Fiennes
Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is -- J. Allen Hynek
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. -- Saul Alinsky
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
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth. -- Tryon Edwards
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
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 can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach. -- Madame de Stael
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. -- Walter Scott
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. -- William Blake
And took for truth the test of ridicule. -- George Crabbe
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule. -- Patricia Moyes
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. -- Dorothy Parker
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. -- William Hazlitt
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
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 passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. -- Dorothy Parker
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
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. -- Thomas Aquinas
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer. -- Denis Waitley
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. -- Paul Klee
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule. -- Lord Chesterfield
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. -- Andre Gide
I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself. -- Bill Maher
ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. -- Louisa May Alcott
The devil's happy when the critics run you off. -- Criss Jami
The fear of being ridiculed is gruesome than death. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
As dogs are to bark, some people are to mock. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. -- David Byrne
When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn. -- Osamu Dazai
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. -- Marty Rubin
I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore. -- E.J. Copperman
Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. -- Dorothy Parker
To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody. -- Criss Jami
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. -- John Bunyan
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. -- Miguel de Unamuno
You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
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
When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God -- Sunday Adelaja
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
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."(The Decider, July 21, 2007) -- Bill Maher
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. -- Justina Chen
Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being. -- Criss Jami
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. -- E. L. Doctorow
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. -- Victor Hugo
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
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. -- Criss Jami
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] -- Edmund Burke
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
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. -- Louisa May Alcott
A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. -- Virginia Woolf
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way. -- Criss Jami
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. -- Rowan Atkinson
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else. -- Gloria Allred
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you 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. -- Molly Ivins
Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other. -- T.F. Hodge
I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities. -- Nicki Minaj
Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan's gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down; watch them closely. They are wearing the booths Satan invented! Don't attack the people; attack the one who sponsors them! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy. -- James E. Faust
There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world.""There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE. -- Nadège Richards
He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd never hear the end of it. She'd latch onto his flawed character and hold it up for relentless ridicule till the end of time, or thereabouts. -- Helen Hodgman
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. -- Sam Kinison
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation. -- Charles Studd
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Silence can be the worst ridicule. -- Helen Nielsen
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule. -- Moliere
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Love can bear anything better than ridicule. -- Caitlin Thomas
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. -- Blaise Pascal
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. -- Daniel Okrent
If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule! -- Arlene Francis
Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule. -- David R. Mains
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. -- Ambrose Bierce
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. -- John Stuart Mill
A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule. -- D. H. Lawrence
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them. -- Steven Novella
Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule. -- Willis Regier
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. -- John Stuart Mill
Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule. -- Jim Gaffigan
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. -- William Warburton
I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule. -- Ellis
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule. -- Peter Dinklage
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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