The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
Quoted by Barry Unsworth
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless … or useful.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most people do kiss and tell; most of them just don't tell many people.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased's chances of going to hell.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.
Quoted by Patrick Bryant
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.
Quoted by Rudyard Kipling
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Quoted by Jonathan Swift
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
Quoted by Lizz Winstead
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
Quoted by John Dryden
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Quoted by Molly Ivins
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
Quoted by Gore Vidal
Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
Quoted by Barbara W. Tuchman
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Quoted by Anita Brookner
Good humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery.
Quoted by Charles Simmons