Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
Bryan DavisTags: funny assumptions irony comical harsh blunt
My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming floor while a sleek veterinary surgeon in a spotless parturition overall inserted his arm to a polite distance. He was relaxed and smiling, the farmer and his helpers were smiling, even the cow was smiling. There was no dirt or blood or sweat anywhere.
That man in the picture had just finished an excellent lunch and had moved next door to do a bit of calving just for the sheer pleasure of it, as a kind of dessert. He hadn't crawled shivering from his bed at two o'clock in the morning and bumped over twelve miles of frozen snow, staring sleepily ahead till the lonely farm showed in the headlights. He hadn't climbed half a mile of white fell-side to the doorless barn where his patient lay.
Tags: irony veterinarians
The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.
Christopher S. HyattTags: saints irony attainment martyrs 1991
He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.
Roger ZelaznyTags: swearing irony 1967 cursing swear-words
My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?
A. MussbacherI live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.
Genevieve RossTags: humor irony self-delusion value-of-self-delusion
I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . .
BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . .
. . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS
Tags: inspirational happiness choice belief humour goal sarcasm irony limit focus
I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.
Rachel HartmanTags: irony insecurity
That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: humor irony gingerbread jim-crow
He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.
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