You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
--Art Buchwald (1925 - )
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
--Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
--Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
--Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
--Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
ON SADNESS, VANITY AND CERTAINTY IN LIFE
Job 7:16 (Message Bible)
I hate this life! Who needs any more of this?
Let me alone! There's nothing to my life—it's nothing
but smoke.
Psalm 39:11 (Message Bible)
to purge us from our sin,
our dearest idols go up in smoke.
Are we also nothing but smoke?
Eccles. 1:2 (Message Bible)
Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That's what the Quester says.]
There's nothing to anything—it's all smoke.
Isaiah 58:9 (Message Bible)
Then when you pray, God will answer.
You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.'
Psalm 31:6 (Message Bible)
I hate all this silly religion,
but you, God, I trust.
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