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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to read more
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I read more
I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly read more
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
