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Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly. — Melissa Jo Peltier

Invisible things are the only realities. — Edgar Allan Poe

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. — Paul Fry

Wisdom is unlearning what you have learnt. — Amit Abraham

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. — Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. — Jerry Zucker

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce

I want to blow your mind away, Pakistan. With love Yours destructively, TTP — @SaroorIjaz

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism. — Maajid Nawaz

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. — Paul Christensen

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother. — Michel Templet

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter's day. — St John Morris

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard. — G.K. Chesterton

Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream. — R.A. Lafferty

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. — Horace

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer. — Marshall McLuhan

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. — Charles Churchill

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project. — Michael Hastings

-"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid. — Lloyd Alexander

I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we're like Donald Duck. An' I think a lotta guys are afraid of that. — Jonathan Ashworth

Make fun, not war. — Marty Rubin

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat? — Carroll Bryant

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. — Anita Brookner

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple. — Terry Pratchett

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Was a combo of Sal Dali and Ronald McDonald. A fringe celeb wheeled out for Tv appearances. — Saira Viola

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being. — D.H. Lawrence

I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.
- The Duchess Gloriana XII — Leonard Wibberley

After we deal and heal ... NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS
... Jan Marshall — Jan Marshall

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. — G.K. Chesterton

I know what ails you. — Tom Lucas

Now that Mohtarma Veena Malik has embraced Burqa, she should be sent to negotiate with Maulana Burqa, dare I say. — @SaroorIjaz

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES! — Richard Curtis

Make your life the greatest story ever told! — Marie Guillaume

It is difficult not to write satire. — Juvenal

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Satire is focused bitterness. — Leo Rosten

I said never mix business with pleasure. They said it was a pleasure doing business with me. — Nikhil Sharda

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art. — Philip Roth

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon. — Chris Rock

Never so sure our rapture to create
As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate. — William Hazlitt

Don't believe everything you see on the internet — Abraham Lincoln

The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
Food to feed the universe. — Roman Payne

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. — Glenn Greenwald

You cannot kill satire. — New York Times

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. — Carroll O'Connor

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. — A.O. Scott

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. — Michael Moore

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. — Dawn Powell

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone. — Graham Spaid

Heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo. — Joe LaFlam

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status. — C.Z. Hazard

Are we looking at
each other suspiciously
when colour-blind cured. — Ibnu Din Assingkiri

The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place. — George Herman

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Are you trying to seduce me or trick me? — Kathy Bryson

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. — Alexander Pope

Laughter is the best medicine — Chase Soundly

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly. — George Orwell

To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy. — Edwin A. Abbott

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

Your toaster's a puff. — St John Morris

The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. — Munia Khan

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire. — Steven Pinker

Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex. — Norm MacDonald

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms. — Nile Rodgers

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off. — Andi James Chamberlain

A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes. — Pawan Mishra

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. — Edward Young

You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue. — Harry Blamires

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well. — John Tillotson

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it. — Malcolm Bradbury

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work. — David Shrigley

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. — John Dryden

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them ... — Aleister Crowley

You are either on Wall Street or you're a bum and there's nothing in between. — Katya G. Cohen

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. — Quintilian

An evergreen flower is never scared of the upcoming fall. — Faramarz Ashenai Ghasemi

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew. — Stephen Colbert

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause. — Tom Morrison

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire

No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really. — Chuck Palahniuk

to leaders - people are emotional and you can take them for a ride as long as they continue to be gullible — Anno Nomius

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson