“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
It's funny how the one you need doesn't need you. How that one person brought out the best and the worst in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
People say that bad memories causes the most pain, but actually it's the good ones that drive you insane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The progress of humanity is stalled by human hubris. AI’s progress, by their intelligent shortsightedness.” — F.C. Quiles Copy Share Image
It's funny how adults complain about our generation, yet they raised it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People forgive you when lies are told and hate you when the truth is told. — Amarjeet Das Copy Share Image
For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types,"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
College is like a woman; You work so hard to get in and nine months later you wish you'd never come. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image