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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
Marty Rubin
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 is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the language of the devil
Thomas Carlyle
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Sir Walter Scott
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
Franz Grillparzer
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard Feynman
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.
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, P
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Martin Tupper
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Milan Kundera
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Oliver Goldsmith
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
George Farquhar
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
Jean de la Bruyere
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Mark Twain
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
