Satire proverbs
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- Edgar Allan Poe99◆ He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
- P.G. Wodehouse99◆ I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
- Matt Groening99◆ Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
- P.G. Wodehouse99◆ Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
- Franz Kafka99◆ A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
- Stephen Colbert99◆ Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.
- Stephen Colbert99◆ The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]
- Terry Pratchett98◆ But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
- Terry Pratchett98◆ Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
- E.L. Doctorow98◆ I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.
- Gail Carriger98◆ Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.
- Jack McDevitt98◆ It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
- Voltaire98◆ He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.
- Michael Chabon98◆ Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.
- Edgar Johnson98
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