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Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies. -- Nathalia Crane
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? -- Kevin Costner
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. -- Peter Agre
I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care. -- Nancy Reagan
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand. -- Jason Blum
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. -- Thomas de Quincey
People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do. -- Davey Havok
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. -- Kevin Costner
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. -- Niklaus Wirth
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. -- Winona Ryder
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. -- Seneca the Younger
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. -- Tony Campolo
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. -- Andrea Dworkin
I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts. -- Zainab Salbi
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. -- Paul Hawken
So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard. -- Liz Phair
I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed. -- Julia Roberts
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke. -- Laura Hillenbrand
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques. -- Donald Byrd
Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs. -- David Limbaugh
One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way. -- David Icke
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar. -- Jeff Goodell
In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team. -- John Salley
If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it. -- Tom Weston-Jones
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. -- Lord Chesterfield
The fear of being ridiculed is gruesome than death. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply. -- Xenocrates
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. -- Robin Sharma
Unless your ideas are ridiculed by experts, they are worth nothing. -- Reg Revans
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. -- George Sand
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. -- Julia Glass
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. -- Ann Coulter
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war. -- William Bennett
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. -- Edmund White
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed. -- R. C. Sproul
Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most. -- Dillon Burroughs
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society -- Sunday Adelaja
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not. -- Janice Tanton
People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...' -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed. -- Ian Astbury
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. -- Louisa May Alcott
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly. -- Alice Childress
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. -- Seneca the Younger
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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed. -- Immanuel Kant
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. -- Victor Davis Hanson
You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively. -- Mango Wodzak
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans. -- Michio Kaku
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? -- Kevin Costner
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception. -- Gustave Flaubert
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed. -- Alexander Pope
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored. -- Auberon Waugh
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression. -- Rowan Atkinson
We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal. -- Spike Lee
There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it. -- Adrian Rogers
When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today. -- Samuel G. Freedman
Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free? -- Aberjhani
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder. -- Chuck Palahniuk
So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly. -- Michael Kimmel
We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated. -- Josh McDowell

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