Philip Sidney Quotes

One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump.

Who can refute a sneer?

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

It is horrid to smirk.

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

You are a daft race. Begone!

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Gates is a clown—–an absolute clown.

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.

Frank Williams says I'm nothing but a money-grabber. I can only laugh at that.

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.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

Loser loser, double loser, whatever, as if, get the picture. DUH!

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 know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

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.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

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

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 won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.