"New York is a sucked orange."

Satire, City, Metaphor

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

Justice, Men, Crime, Driving, Interest

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Nature, Philosophy, Truth, Life

"No sensible person ever made an apology."

Social, Apology, Sense, Respect, Ego

"Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."

Nature, Universe, Evil

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."

Love, World, Life, Kindness

"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

Courage, Life, Fear, Death, Time

"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."

Philosophy, Eloquence, Belief, Truth, Passion

"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

Future, Thought, Well-Being, Examination

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Time, Day, Forget, Tomorrow, Spirit

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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Satire, Advice, Alone, Truth, Irony

"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Satire, Appearance, Deception, Humor, Character

"The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Satire, Humor, Truth, Life, Happiness

"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Satire, Missionaries, Humor, Eating, History

"Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Satire, Humor, Death, Teaching, Irony

"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Satire, Ignorance, Truth, Idea, Action

"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Satire, News, Despair, Disaster, War

"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Satire, Morality, Animals, Lesson, Story

"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Satire, America, Irony, Culture, Truth

"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Satire, Liberty, Politics, Irony