Satire Quotes

First, of things relating to animals; secondly, of irrational creatures; thirdly of plants; fourthly, of ceremonies; fifthly, of manners; sixthly, of cases or edicts or quarrels; seventhly, of cases that are impossible in nature [paradoxes], as, for instance, of those things which, the more is taken from them, the more they grow. And reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.