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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls.
I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.
People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.
A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.
sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.
I'm getting to enjoy the mentality of the British, the sarcasm, the dry humour. There are so many more ways of articulating yourself than in German.
My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.
The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.