Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. 'Never mock a tender heart,' he said.

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don't listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed yourself!

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of their prophets indulge, that fundamentally most of them always have been as sincere in their professions as any other men. Besides, I do not believe in insincerity in social strife, for people always come to think what they want to think and what they incessantly profess. As regards democracy, socialist parties are presumably no more opportunists than are any others; they simply espouse democracy if, as, and when it serves their ideals and interests and not otherwise. Lest readers should be shocked and think so immoral a view worthy only of the most callous of political practitioners, ...

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.