Quotes about Satire
There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
— Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
— Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
— Will Rogers
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.
— Will Rogers
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
— William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
— William Hazlitt
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
— Francis de Sales