Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
She is a water bug on the surface of life.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
America is one long expectoration.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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