"Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends."

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Paul Fussell

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ironic Quotes

“You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.”
“Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here.”
“Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.”
“In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.”
“U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.”

Source : "How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us". www.wsj.com. September 21, 2012.
“To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.”

Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274
“nothing in life is more corroding than habit.”
“I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.”

Source : "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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