A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. Honoré de Balzac
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. Albert Schweitzer
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory? Abbott Eliot Kittredge
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. Horace Walpole