The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite...

Smokes of mockery is the gasoline that ignites our passion for greater achievements

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in...

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They’ll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

I play the only instrument that takes in music rather than propelling it out: the ear trumpet. Don’t bother snickering at me—I am deaf to your mockery.

Go make love to a tube sock.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear...

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I’m afraid.””Any will do,” the rabbi replied in Provençal.”Splendid. Latin it is,” said Pope Clement.

Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it’s on the far side of the airlock.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don’t listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed...

To list all the great discoveries in the field of science and medicine during the past century, such as aspirin, insulin, penicillin, and the streptomycin drugs would require the undivided attention of a medical historian...

My cat mocks me frequently. It’s the universe’s way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The poem had been written by an adult, not some teen with an unfinished...

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren’t we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?’ he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. ‘A...

You can spit on a rose, but it’s still a rose.

Weeping for other people’s pain isn’t true weeping if it doesn’t come from deep down your heart.

Whether that lady’s gentle mind, No longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it left delight,I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and strife,Where nothing...

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an...

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan’s gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down; watch them closely. They are wearing the booths Satan invented! Don’t attack...

A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. “She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me.”He pointed down to her toes as if she were...

I’d lose that smile if I were you.” I jingle the car keys in his face. “Your life is in my hands, lest you forget ” My imitation of his cockney accent is actually spot-on,...

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. (Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68)

Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved