Satirists

1. Oscar Wilde

1.1. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

1.2. A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

1.3. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

1.4. Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

2. Mark Twain

2.1. Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

2.2. Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

2.3. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

2.4. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

3. Voltaire

3.1. Clever tyrants are never punished.

3.2. Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

3.3. God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

3.4. Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

4. Johnathon Swift

4.1. A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

4.2. Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

4.3. I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

4.4. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

5. George Bernard Shaw

5.1. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

5.2. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

5.3. An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

5.4. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.