Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness. . . for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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.
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.
Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS. " I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.