To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: authority irony comtempt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. —Frank Deford More about this quote Tags: ethics sports irony wrestling professional wrestling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. —Franklin P. Jones More about this quote Tags: memory forgiveness forgetting irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: history USA slavery irony Mayflower Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: happiness misery irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look at the politics of this country as a game that is played on the people, this illusion of choice. It's interesting that the important things have been reduced in number: oil companies, communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, accounting, all these firms have been merged and reduced. The choices are very limited. But if you want a bagel, we've got twenty-six flavors. There are four hundred kinds of mustard in this country. These are the illusions of choice. I don't really think choice is here to any substantive degree. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: justice politics choice irony banking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is bad luck to be superstitious. —Andrew W. Mathis More about this quote Tags: luck irony superstition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. —Milton Berle More about this quote Tags: politics time irony committee waste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. —Margot Asquith More about this quote Tags: history discovery America irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black. —Kelly Robinson More about this quote Tags: pessimism darkness irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a vegetarian. I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish, aren't they? . . . And pigs, cows, sheep, anything that lives near water. I'm like a postmodern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically. —Bill Bailey More about this quote Tags: food irony vegetarianism water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: heroism violence irony heroes Quakers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: war hate irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing happened. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: change money irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Careful. We don't want to learn from this. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: humor learning irony care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email