“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.” — Edgar Johnson Copy Share Image
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say… — Mike White Copy Share Image
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most successful satirist is that one who shakes up and disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done You can tune me out, you can click me… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image