“The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.” — George Herman Copy Share Image
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.” — Anne Belov Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I finally figured out the real difference between irony and satire--irony is when you fry a chicken in batter mixed from its… — Taylor Anderson Copy Share Image
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“He grimaced and went after her. “I’m not a trainer. Just spent a lot of time working out.” “Misspent youth, clearly.” She… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“You wanna know why the world is f**ked? This is why, this is exactly why…right here. Get a pen, write this down,… — Shannon Lyndsy Copy Share Image
Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment.… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
“There is a sort of mental treason That smothers dreams outside of reason” — Mike Corbett Copy Share Image