Joni Mitchell Quotes

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.

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 generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.

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.

Who can refute a sneer?

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

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

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

We make fun of our leaders.

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

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 has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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.

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.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.