Isaac Barrow Quotes

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

Who can refute a sneer?

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.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

We make fun of our leaders.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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.

Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Parody is homage gone sour.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.