Satirists
by Alex H.
1. Oscar Wilde
1.1. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
1.2. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
1.3. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
1.4. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
1.5. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
2. Voltaire
2.1. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
2.2. I hate women because they always know where things are.
2.3. Nature has always had more force than education.
2.4. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
3. Jonathon Swift
3.1. A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
3.2. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
3.3. I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
3.4. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
3.5. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
3.6. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
4. George Bernard Shaw
4.1. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
4.2. Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
5. Mark Twain
5.1. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
5.2. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
5.3. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.