Quotes by Satirists - Page 2

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
With most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.
G. C. Lichtenberg
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
God creates the animals man creates himself.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
Samuel Butler
Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.
Samuel Butler
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Horace
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.
Alexander Pope
What some invent the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
Alexander Pope
Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.
Jonathan Swift
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
Samuel Butler
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Juvenal
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Horace
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Ambrose Bierce
Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.
Ambrose Bierce
Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift
I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Jonathan Swift
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Tom Lehrer
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Juvenal
Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal
He that would pun would pick a pocket.
Alexander Pope
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
Jonathan Swift
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
Juvenal
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
Karl Kraus
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
Alexander Pope
Possession they say is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
The man is either mad or he is making verses.
Horace
Let your poem be kept nine years.
Horace
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.
Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce
The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift