Mockery Of Man Quotes

#1. You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Woodrow Wilson

#2. Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#3. Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'!

T.F. Hodge

#4. The eyes can often lie, not see what is essential. But the heart, never.

Anushka Bhartiya

#5. As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
[Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?

William Shakespeare

#7. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

Frederick Douglass

#8. We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

Ian Somerhalder

#9. What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

D. L. Hughley

#11. The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#12. When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'

George Takei

#13. Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it.

Alastair Reynolds

#14. Why must you choose the only dignified person in this crew as the butt of your mockery?"
"Because, my dear man," Ham said, imitating Breeze's accent, "you are, by far, the best butt we have.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim
At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#16. It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

V.S. Pritchett

#17. I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

Robert Heinecken

#18. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

Stephen Richards