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  • It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

    Funny   Kings   Marine  
  • Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

    Heart   Blow   Coquette  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster
  • These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

  • There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

    Laughter   Heart   Men  
    The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906
  • Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

    Sweet   Pain   Balance  
    Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.9, Frog Books
  • Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

    Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). “The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes”
  • The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

    Religious   Art   Men  
    John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104
  • Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!

    Friday   Blood   Rude  
  • Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

    FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 06, 2011
  • They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

    Thinking   Two   Hatred  
    James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206
  • None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

    John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.37
  • Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

    Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
  • On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

    Jobs   Telephones   Done  
    Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
  • I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.

    Half   Shapes   Want  
    "Peter Andre interview: Jordan's ex on sex, lies and six packs". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2009.
  • Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

    Change   Sweet   Scoffing  
    Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.9, Frog Books
  • There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

    Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.165, Fulcrum Publishing
  • Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

    "Life of Demosthenes". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.
  • They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

    Fear   Character   Speak  
    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53
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