Quotes of Jeer - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos? ”

- Poul Anderson

“ Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"' the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ When they boo you, you know they mean you. ”

- George Halas

“ To ridicule philosophy is really to act the part of a philosopher. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. ”

- Bible

“ Ridicule is the best test of truth. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ 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

“ Where the question is a jest, the fittest answer is a scoff. ”

- Archimedes

“ Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or dope or war or toadburgers, for all I care. ”

- Harlan Ellison

“ 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

“ 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

“ The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name... and they say golf is a quiet game. ”

- Unknown

“ And took for truth the test of ridicule. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. ”

- William Warburton

“ I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ”

- George Farquhar

“ Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ It's a strange business, all jeers and no cheers. ”

- Tom Gorman
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