Satire Quotes - Page 3

While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

James Finn Garner

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

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To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

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We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

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Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

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Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

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We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

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Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. “Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper.t The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. “You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man. “Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.” “I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.” “So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?” “Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?” Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. “He is quite sensitive,” commented The Dry Advisor. “Who is he?” “A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

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Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

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You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

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It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

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You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

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We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

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Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

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Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

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Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

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When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

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Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

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Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

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Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

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Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

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He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.

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There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

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Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

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Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

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Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

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The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

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Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

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The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

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By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

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Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

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Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

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You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

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When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

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The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

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One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

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The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

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We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.

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