Ridicule - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65357<![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54226<![CDATA[Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54227<![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54228<![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54229<![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54231<![CDATA[Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54225<![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222<![CDATA[I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54223<![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54224<![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216<![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54217<![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54218<![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54219<![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54220<![CDATA[I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54221<![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212<![CDATA[Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54213<![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54214<![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215<![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54205<![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54206<![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207<![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208<![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54209<![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210<![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211<![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54202<![CDATA[First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54203<![CDATA[Ridicule is the best test of truth ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54204<![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705<![CDATA[Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17292