irony Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about irony.
“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”
- Ambrose Bierce
“Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.”
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
“We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.”
- George Saunders
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
- Randall Jarrell
“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”
- Arthur C. Clarke
“It takes a long time to become young.”
- Pablo Picasso
“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”
- Roger Zelazny
“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”
- Mason Cooley