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  1. A quotation from Horace

    For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
    And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
     
                                  [Ridiculum acri
    Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence

  2. A quotation from Horace

    For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
    And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
     
                                  [Ridiculum acri
    Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence

  3. A quotation from Horace

    For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
    And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
     
                                  [Ridiculum acri
    Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence

  4. A quotation from Horace

    For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
    And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
     
                                  [Ridiculum acri
    Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence

  5. A quotation from Horace

    For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
    And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
     
                                  [Ridiculum acri
    Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence

  6. @markhburton @2legged PAY LESS THOSE YOU UPHOLD = Short #Answer

    You & others pay their expensive #rent / #mortgage to them / their #system expecting different manipulation / ending?

    NO WAY OUT BUT NOT PLAY THE CASINO / PAY LE$$.

    The #news, #satire, #mockery, #sarcasm is perhaps cathartic...

    but A LOT is a waste of time, with energy that could be invested better into ourselves #talking about #trust.

    100's here and we reply shallow, #hate, mock & don't increment / re-#create #trust much.

  7. @markhburton @2legged PAY LESS THOSE YOU UPHOLD = Short #Answer

    You & others pay their expensive #rent / #mortgage to them / their #system expecting different manipulation / ending?

    NO WAY OUT BUT NOT PLAY THE CASINO / PAY LE$$.

    The #news, #satire, #mockery, #sarcasm is perhaps cathartic...

    but A LOT is a waste of time, with energy that could be invested better into ourselves #talking about #trust.

    100's here and we reply shallow, #hate, mock & don't increment / re-#create #trust much.

  8. @2legged PAY LESS THOSE YOU UPHOLD = Short #Answer

    People pay their expensive #rent / #mortgage to them / their #system expecting different manipulation.

    NO WAY OUT BUT PLAYING THAT CASINO LE$$.

    The #satire, #humour, #mockery, #sarcasm ... is perhaps cathartic...

    A Bingo card seems quite educative of their shit - but

    AT THE SAME TIME it's a waste our future #time / it could be invested in ourselves better #talking.

    100's here and we reply little, mock post and don't re-#create #trust.

  9. @2legged PAY LESS THOSE YOU UPHOLD = Short #Answer

    People pay their expensive #rent / #mortgage to them / their #system expecting different manipulation.

    NO WAY OUT BUT PLAYING THAT CASINO LE$$.

    The #satire, #humour, #mockery, #sarcasm ... is perhaps cathartic...

    A Bingo card seems quite educative of their shit - but

    AT THE SAME TIME it's a waste our future #time / it could be invested in ourselves better #talking.

    100's here and we reply little, mock post and don't re-#create #trust.

  10. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify Him. They would ask Him to dinner, and hear what He had to say, and make fun of it.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Remark (1850-01-12)

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/32262…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #Christ #Christianity #Jesus #JesusChrist #makefun #makefunof #mockery #modernworld #prophet #rejection

  11. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  12. #MissKittyPolitics I rarely am idly curious. When I'm curious, there's no dirt left. It's all bedrock politics in this room. #Politics and #images as simple as #non-violent #mockery are now excluded. Standard #political #research and #imagery is #censored. Back to you: Are human rights necessary?

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzruykalgzmdhwbguvjjjv3b/post/3ml7nxrf7ck2u

  13. CW: Mockery, satire

    The creepy neighbor who's been tossing trash and manure across the fence got a new shovel.

    #x #grok #mockery #antisocialNetwork #mediaManipulation

  14. CW: Mockery, satire

    The creepy neighbor who's been tossing trash and manure across the fence got a new shovel.

    #x #grok #mockery #antisocialNetwork #mediaManipulation

  15. #Trump's mockery of #Starmer and #Macron is an extraordinary sight. I have never ever seen any other head of state or govt mocking allies. It's very rare to see #mockery even of sworn enemies.

    Trump has always been a bully. But even a year ago, there was some restraint in his public speech, some degree of diplomatic nicety.

    Was yesterday's outburst anything other than part of Trump's cognitive decline? Or is it some sort of reasoned and calculated strategic shift in US diplomacy?

    #uspol

  16. #Trump's mockery of #Starmer and #Macron is an extraordinary sight. I have never ever seen any other head of state or govt mocking allies. It's very rare to see #mockery even of sworn enemies.

    Trump has always been a bully. But even a year ago, there was some restraint in his public speech, some degree of diplomatic nicety.

    Was yesterday's outburst anything other than part of Trump's cognitive decline? Or is it some sort of reasoned and calculated strategic shift in US diplomacy?

    #uspol

  17. A quotation from Mark Twain

    For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon

  18. A quotation from James Thurber

    By definition, humor is gentle. The savage, the cruel, the harsh would fall under the heading of wit and/or satire, as the lawyers say. Now, my definitions are these: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

    James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
    Interview (1959-03-24) by Edward R. Murrow, Small World, CBS-TV

    More about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #comedy #humannature #humor #humorist #mockery #satire #selfmockery #senseofhumor #verbalabuse #wit

  19. A quotation from James Thurber

    By definition, humor is gentle. The savage, the cruel, the harsh would fall under the heading of wit and/or satire, as the lawyers say. Now, my definitions are these: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

    James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
    Interview (1959-03-24) by Edward R. Murrow, Small World, CBS-TV

    More about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #comedy #humannature #humor #humorist #mockery #satire #selfmockery #senseofhumor #verbalabuse #wit

  20. A quotation from James Thurber

    By definition, humor is gentle. The savage, the cruel, the harsh would fall under the heading of wit and/or satire, as the lawyers say. Now, my definitions are these: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

    James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
    Interview (1959-03-24) by Edward R. Murrow, Small World, CBS-TV

    More about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #comedy #humannature #humor #humorist #mockery #satire #selfmockery #senseofhumor #verbalabuse #wit

  21. @usluck

    It's unbelievable what the American people put up with from these evil clowns.
    In other countries, the streets would already be burning.

    #USA #US #Politics #Politicians #clowns #government #mockery #Washington

  22. @usluck

    It's unbelievable what the American people put up with from these evil clowns.
    In other countries, the streets would already be burning.

    #USA #US #Politics #Politicians #clowns #government #mockery #Washington

  23. “There was a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House today. …
    the ceremony today at the White House was not solemn. Before the ceremony, Secretary of [Defense] Pete Hegseth and several generals and a clutch of other white men were standing off to the side talking. One of the men clapped the other on the back, as if he had just made a difficult putt on the golf course. Another man said something funny, and several of them laughed.“

    open.substack.com/pub/luciantr

    #TrumpRegime #Mockery #Veterans

  24. “There was a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House today. …
    the ceremony today at the White House was not solemn. Before the ceremony, Secretary of [Defense] Pete Hegseth and several generals and a clutch of other white men were standing off to the side talking. One of the men clapped the other on the back, as if he had just made a difficult putt on the golf course. Another man said something funny, and several of them laughed.“

    open.substack.com/pub/luciantr

    #TrumpRegime #Mockery #Veterans

  25. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #mockery #derision #disapproval #disrespect #laughter #memory #poetry #quality #remembering #respect #ridicule #scorn #writing

  26. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #mockery #derision #disapproval #disrespect #laughter #memory #poetry #quality #remembering #respect #ridicule #scorn #writing

  27. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #mockery #derision #disapproval #disrespect #laughter #memory #poetry #quality #remembering #respect #ridicule #scorn #writing

  28. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #mockery #derision #disapproval #disrespect #laughter #memory #poetry #quality #remembering #respect #ridicule #scorn #writing

  29. Kyiv groans collective #WTF? to Trump’s latest #Putin comments

    #Trump's claim Putin “kept his word” by not launching missile & drone strikes against #Ukraine's #energy #infrastructure for a week has met with bewilderment & dismay in #Kyiv

    "I believe this is either a #mockery of our #misfortune, a lack of understanding of the situation, or wishful thinking," lawmaker from opposition European Solidarity party

    kyivindependent.com/kyiv-groan

    #DementiaDon #TrumpIsARussianAsset #dictator #tyrant #war

  30. Kyiv groans collective #WTF? to Trump’s latest #Putin comments

    #Trump's claim Putin “kept his word” by not launching missile & drone strikes against #Ukraine's #energy #infrastructure for a week has met with bewilderment & dismay in #Kyiv

    "I believe this is either a #mockery of our #misfortune, a lack of understanding of the situation, or wishful thinking," lawmaker from opposition European Solidarity party

    kyivindependent.com/kyiv-groan

    #DementiaDon #TrumpIsARussianAsset #dictator #tyrant #war

  31. A quotation from George Orwell

    Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 1 “England Your England,” sec. 2, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81601/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism @fear #laughter #marching #military #mockery #parade #selfcensorship

  32. A quotation from George Orwell

    Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 1 “England Your England,” sec. 2, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81601/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism @fear #laughter #marching #military #mockery #parade #selfcensorship

  33. A quotation from Mark Twain

    Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    (Attributed)

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/31785/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #ambition #aspirations #belittling #coach #denigration #discouragement #ego #encouragement #goals #greatness #hopes #mentor #mockery

  34. A quotation from Mark Twain

    Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    (Attributed)

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/31785/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #ambition #aspirations #belittling #coach #denigration #discouragement #ego #encouragement #goals #greatness #hopes #mentor #mockery

  35. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments on it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-11-02) to James H. Hackett

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2183…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #criticism #derision #kindness #malice #media #mockery #president #ridicule #scorn #selfdeprecation

  36. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments on it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-11-02) to James H. Hackett

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2183…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #criticism #derision #kindness #malice #media #mockery #president #ridicule #scorn #selfdeprecation

  37. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments on it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-11-02) to James H. Hackett

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2183…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #criticism #derision #kindness #malice #media #mockery #president #ridicule #scorn #selfdeprecation

  38. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments on it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-11-02) to James H. Hackett

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2183…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #criticism #derision #kindness #malice #media #mockery #president #ridicule #scorn #selfdeprecation

  39. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments on it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-11-02) to James H. Hackett

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2183…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #criticism #derision #kindness #malice #media #mockery #president #ridicule #scorn #selfdeprecation

  40. A quotation from Montesquieu

    As useless laws weaken necessary laws, those that can be evaded weaken legislation.
     
    [Comme les lois inutiles affaiblissent les lois nécessaires, celles qu’on peut éluder affaiblissent la législation.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 29, ch. 16 (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/2895/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #evasion #law #legislation #mockery #perception #utility