Quotes About Irony

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it...and he's always on time.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke.

At any rate, they laugh at us when we're serious, and they're serious when we're joking.

It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.

If Man was the highest achievement of Nature's grand design, then Nature had a sense of humor. Whereas

Alas, hoist with my own petard.

I never laugh at death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.

I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power over me.

Was this what he believed, what he had always believed when I talked on and on about goodness? Was he making the violin say it? Was he deliberately creating those long, pure liquid notes to say that beauty meant nothing because it came from the dispair inside him, and it had nothing to do with the desair finally, because the despair wasn't beautiful, and a beauty then was a horrid irony?