Quotes about Satire

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

A great name for a new country song: If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out of Jail by Now.

Oh my God, they killed Kenny!

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.