Quotes by Satirists - Page 6

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Alexander Pope
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
Ambrose Bierce
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
To err is human to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace
Too much is unwholesome.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
Horace
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Juvenal
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
Samuel Butler
Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
That sovereign of insufferables.
Ambrose Bierce
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
Samuel Butler
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
To err is human to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill
Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."
Lenny Bruce
Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.
G. C. Lichtenberg
They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
Bread is the staff of life.
Jonathan Swift
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.
Karl Kraus
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Samuel Butler
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
Men would be angels Angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
If matters go badly now they will not always be so.
Horace
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Samuel Butler
Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.
Alexander Pope
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Ambrose Bierce
Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.
Ambrose Bierce
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
Samuel Butler
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.
Juvenal
All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
Samuel Butler
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Jonathan Swift
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
Horace
Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
Horace
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg