Quotes by Satirists - Page 26

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Samuel Butler
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
Samuel Butler
*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Alexander Pope
Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ye sacred nine
Alexander Pope
Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
Samuel Butler
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce
The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me.
Alexander Pope
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
Alexander Pope
The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Samuel Butler
A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
John Davies of Hereford
In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana