#irony

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat. ↗

— Esther M. Friesner

#irony #politics #supernatural

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life. ↗

— Janette Rallison

#humor #irony #food

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable. ↗

— Binyavanga Wainaina

#cows #development #irony #kenya #ngo

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#poetry #anarchy

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#against #cases #chief #chief justice #commandments

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#dramatically #end #grand #however #irony

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#politeness #sweetness #political

Ironic, isn’t it?” Shawn said. “It’s not ironic at all,” Gus said. “Dude, it’s so like a black fly in your chardonnay.” “How many times do I have to tell you that’s not ironic, either?” “Rain on your wedding day?” “‘Irony’ is the use of words to convey a meaning that’s opposite to their literal meaning,” Gus said. “That stupid song came out fourteen years ago, and we still have this exact conversation at least once a week.” “Yeah,” Shawn said. “Ironic, isn’t it? ↗

— William Rabkin

#humor #irony #pysch #shawn-spencer #humor

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#irony #humor

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#detectives #guns #humor #irony #machos