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The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
My hair has been mocked a lot.
Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?
Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
You don't have to laugh out loud to mock someone.
You should mock yourself and rise above this.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
Mockery is not just the interest of children; it is their second meal
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs
Imitation is criticism.
Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.
As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.
It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.
You should not mock what lies beyond your grasp." He
I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out on the road and the way I conduct my business and myself and the way I behave in this business.
No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
If you won't go to discover your promise land and gift, you will be mocked.
If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek!
Who mocks at music mocks at love.
I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.
It is the green eyed monster which doth mock.
God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way.
It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
Do not mock a pain you haven't endured
God is only mocked by believers.
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.
I don't know if any of the people perceive themselves as having been made fun of.
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.
Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,
You can make fun of everything.
Imitation is flattery
To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD.
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Every nation mocks other nations. And all are right.
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
Love, you mock us for your sport.
Only fool keeps mocking perseverance.
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.
In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top.
The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
How my achievements mock me!
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Do no mock a mirror;
it will mock you back.
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me
A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. You soon detect mock humility.
a little modesty stays ridicule
Never make fun of people who are different ... unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.
Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.
If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, I'm getting even
Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Humor heals the heckler.
Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark."
"That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans."
"He did have great clothes."
"Proving that stereotypes can span centuries.
Heckle and Jeckle again
Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age ...
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
You don't have to make fun of it."
"Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything.
If people make fun fun of you, you must be doing something right
You see," I explained to Joshua, "what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm."
"No kidding?" said Josh.
"Why do I waste my time with you?
I'm tired of getting made fun of.
If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law. Vess
Flattery ... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.
To not make fun of something is, we believe, itself a form of bullying.
The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.
Your mockers will only celebrate with you when you have gone far beyound them.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked.