"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."

Satire, Truth, Humor, Irony, Men

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"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."

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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."

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"Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can."

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"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."

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"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?"

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"Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?"

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"New York is a sucked orange."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Satire, City, Metaphor

"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."

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

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"You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps."

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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

Duty

"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."

War

"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."

Psychology

"How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other."

Conflict

"What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?"

Mythology

"Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?"

Memory

"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."

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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."

"Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can."

"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."

"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?"

"Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?"

"New York is a sucked orange."

"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."

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

"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."

"You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps."

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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."

"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."

"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."

"Wolves and women wed for life."

"It's you and me that matters to me and you."

"What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?"

"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."