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The good thing about being old is not being young.


Stephen Richards


#ageism #old #old-age #old-aged #old-people

I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.


Edwin A. Abbott


#family-relationships #humour #satire #women #anger

I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.


George McGovern


#because #campaign #day #during #each

...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.


Terry Castle


#satire #self-burlesque #attitude

Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, 'Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in mid-Atlantic; 215 drown. New York City fire destroys 700 buildings. Japanese earthquake kills 12,000. Worldwide cholera epidemic kills millions. Wages rise, but prices rise faster. Financial crash occurs on Van Buren's 36th day in office. Nation begins first great depression. Bank failures and closings spread like plague. 200,000 are unemployed. Business bankrupt; only pawnbrokers prosper. Van Buren declares ten-hour days on all federal jobs. There. Does that make you feel any better?


Donald Harington


#news #politics #satire #architecture

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.


Hubert Selby Jr.


#defeat #tiredness #dreams

In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#russia #satire #satire

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.


Brendan Jack


#empire #humor #humour #memoir #quote

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!


Morihei Ueshiba


#critical #entire #entire universe #essential #extreme






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