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One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

Franklin P. Adams

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Jacob Bronowski

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Frank Moore Colby

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Alexander Pope

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Gore Vidal

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It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

- Norman Washington Manley

Motivational Quote

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

- Lou Holtz

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

Family Quote

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

- Judith Guest

Funny Quote

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller

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