Quotes by Satirists - Page 6

Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?

Juvenal

Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Ambrose Bierce

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

Horace

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Alexander Pope

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Charles Churchill

The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.

Jonathan Swift

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Samuel Butler

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

Samuel Butler

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Alexander Pope

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.

Thomas Love Peacock

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

Alexander Pope

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

G. C. Lichtenberg

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

G. C. Lichtenberg

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Henry S. Leigh

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses

Steve Aylett

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.

Alexander Pope

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers.

Ambrose Bierce

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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