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Quotes About Satire

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.
~ Art Buchwald
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
~ Dylan Moran
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
~ Mark Twain
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
~ George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
~ George Orwell
Gags die, humor doesn't
~ Jack Benny
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
~ Larry Gelbart
And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!
~ Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
~ Will Smith
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
~ Laurence Sterne
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
~ Unknown
On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four
~ Tom Lehrer
Health food makes me sick.
~ Calvin Trillin
Wal-Mart: The only place on earth you can get a haircut, eye exam, ice cream sandwich, tires for your car, and witness a real life what not to wear episode...
~ Unknown
I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.
~ Jarod Kintz
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex. In fact, I just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
~ Rita Mae Brown
My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.
~ Norm Crosby
For my high colestorol my doctor prescribed me a boyfriend.
~ Loesje
My marriage is on the rocks again; yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
~ Unknown
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~ Jon Stewart
One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.
~ Robertson Davies
Tractors and boobs. There you have it.
~ Marina Lewycka