All Quotes By Tag: Irony
“Many people know they’re working, but not what they’re working.”
“If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That’s what contemporary philosophers do.”
“So many authors, so little time to disqualify them!”
“Many millions of people have lost their lives while trying to save a few minutes.”
“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?”
“Peter sank. “I’d give anything to see time.”
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I’ll waste no time reading it.”
“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God’s will, and a Christian Republic is born.”
“They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.”
“In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.”
“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.”
“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
“The painbreached through the indolence of mind. But the dizzinessmade reactions very slow and stretched, like a novice stageactor stretching his death scene for missing queue of actors,leaving audience in splits.”
“In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn’t lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.”
“I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, “that guy’snuts.”out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.”