Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

~ Thomas Jefferson

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When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

~ Osamu Dazai

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Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy, the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

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I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.

~ Thomas Paine

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

~ Edmund Burke

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He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

~ Alison Jackson

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