Quotes of Mock - somelinesforyou

“ The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. ”

- Matthew

“ The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. ”

- Charles Simmons

“ I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.". ”

- Richard Pryor

“ Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ He drew a circle that shut me out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. ”

- Edwin Markham

“ Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer. ”

- Lord George Byron

“ The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ”

- Mark Akenside

“ To ridicule philosophy is really to act the part of a philosopher. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”

- Edward Young

“ Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos? ”

- Poul Anderson

“ The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ”

- Sarah Orne Jewett

“ Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.For Saint Paul says that all that's written wellIs written down some useful truth to tell.Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff And good from bad find no partition. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids. ”

- Olga Korbut

“ I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ Content with poverty, my soul I arm;And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ”

- John Dryden

“ Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches! ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. ”

- Corey Feldman

“ What I liked about the story is that it throws up all these questions. The movie teases the audience. 'Is she having an affair?'. ”

- Ralph Fiennes

“ Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again. ”

- George W. Bush

“ When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you… ”

- John Travolta

“ The Kid and the Wolf A kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing… ”

- Aesop

“ As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money! ”

- Arthur Hugh Clough
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