1,006 Quotes About Satire

I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.

The worst thing about our cultures, education systems, and religions is that they make us take life seriously.

Don’t you have goals or dreams?”“I can’t think of a dream worth believing in or a goal worth aspiring to. How about making it through today… is that a dream or a goal?

(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

Captain Dave is a salt-and-pepper guy who looks older than forty-six. He doesn't have kids of his own. Some people are born to be uncles and Captain Dave is that kind of people. He's also a recovering alcoholic who's obsessed with what everyone else is drinking at all times. Life is hard for some people.

Only man has turned away from the law of survival of the fittest, taken up the weak and ailing, and guaranteed their right to survival. So heroes perish, but the weak live on. One measure of a civilisation, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. There's even a political scientist (anonymous) who claims that our modern age is an age "of the patient, by the patient, for the patient".

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.