Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

William S. Burroughs

Stichwörter: beat satire science-fiction



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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: humor satire vanity classics



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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)

Voltaire

Stichwörter: humor religion satire prayers enmity ridicule social-justice social-life



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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire

Stichwörter: satire



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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stichwörter: satire



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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

P.G. Wodehouse

Stichwörter: humor sorrow satire disappointment moroseness tolstoy russia



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Even ivory towers need central heating.

Breyten Breytenbach

Stichwörter: poetry satire essay new-york-times-review



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I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Matt Groening

Stichwörter: humor family language satire social-commentary simpsons



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Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

Gary Larson

Stichwörter: humor satire social-commentary cartoon



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I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.

John Welter

Stichwörter: humor love fiction satire lunchmeat softball



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