Truth will bear
Neither rude handling, nor unfair
Evasion of its wards, and mocks
Whoever would falsely enter there. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

The sooty oven mocks the black chimney. [ Proverb ]

He that mocks a cripple ought to be whole. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The sea! the sea!- the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies. [ Barry Cornwall ]

If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know though you've buried your wife!
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her -
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter! [ Sheridan ]

Hard unkindness' altered eye. That mocks the tear it forced to flow. [ Gray ]

Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield. [ Lady Dacre ]

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it, and sets it light. [ William Shakespeare ]