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Tag Name "Ridicule" (210)

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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Charles Simmons
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RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
Barney Frank
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Horace
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Walter Scott
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
Thomas Jefferson
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Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
Vanna Bonta
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Lord Chesterfield
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
Louisa May Alcott
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Dorothy Parker
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Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
James Howard Kunstler
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Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
H. P. Blavatsky
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Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
Walter Savage Landor
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Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Walter Scott
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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
Saul Alinsky
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Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Saul
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark
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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.
Tryon Edwards
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Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.
Vanna Bonta
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