#ridicule

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. ↗

— David Byrne

#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#forget #forth #freedom #fun #have fun

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. ↗

— Justina Chen

#ridicule #beauty

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

— Marty Rubin

#contempt #mockery #perfection #ridicule #beauty

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed? ↗

— Justina Chen

#artists #laughable #memorable-works #pushing-the-limits #ridicule

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." (The Decider, July 21, 2007) ↗

— Bill Maher

#humour #ideas #idiocy #politics #ridicule

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. ↗

— William Warburton

#ridicule #test #truth

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forms #government #hereditary #monarchy #present