There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“Life is pure farce from beginning to end, with a little black comedy thrown in for shade. If it was anything else,… — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? (He reflects) Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image