“ Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches! ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ To ridicule philosophy is really to act the part of a philosopher. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar. ”
- Margaret Deland- Copy
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“ We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
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“ Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule... as making the worse appear the better reason. ”
- Laertius Diogenes- Copy
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“ The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff-if it sneer, let it sneer. ”
- Lucy Stone- Copy
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“ The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! ”
- Tom Lehrer- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. ”
- David Icke- Copy
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“ Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer. ”
- Lord George Byron- Copy
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“ Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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