Mockery Quotes

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

Elizabeth Taylor's so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.

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

Jerry's the only man I ever knew who's so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

I've been called worse things by better people.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

This isn’t a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We’re not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni) Well, aren’t you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary)

Ever since I was really little, I started doing a - I don't know how to put this - mentally challenged person on my street. I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my mom, and she was not into it. She said, 'You can't do that!' But my dad really laughed.

I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

My mom and sister both make fun of me now. Well, it looks like you're on trade block again. Where we going this year?

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.