Humor e Ironia

How is it possible to have a civil war?

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.