Quote by Martin Tupper
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but commo

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. – Martin Tupper

Other quotes by Martin Tupper
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Ridicule
category

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Ridicule

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. – George Farquhar

Category:
Ridicule

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. – Sir Walter Scott

Category:
Ridicule

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

Category:
Ridicule

Random Quotes

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage… funny how life works out like that. – Rachel Roy

Category:
funny

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Technology

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live. – Jane Siberry

Category:
Food

It was a mutual relationship. – Monica Lewinsky

Category:
relationship