#ridicule

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. ↗

— John Bunyan

#ridicule #men

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#face #greatest #height #heroism #how

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? ↗

— Kevin Costner

#been #change #defines #feel #had

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#because #been #believe #humiliated #i

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. ↗

— William Warburton

#ridicule #test #truth

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forms #government #hereditary #monarchy #present

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do. ↗

— Davey Havok

#get #liking #look #part #people

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#everything #grow #into #others #ourselves

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#experience #fun #know #knowing #made