“ The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ”
- Friedrich von Schlegel- Copy
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“ Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ”
- Stacia Tauscher- Copy
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“ I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
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“ The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot? ”
- Jensen Ackles- Copy
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“ The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. ”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky- Copy
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“ What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?. ”
- Larry Bird- Copy
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“ Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. ”
- Barbara Schapiro- Copy
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