Irony Pin

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. - Elizabeth Bibesco

People use irony as a defense mechanism. - David Byrne

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. - George Saunders

If I had a pause button on my life, I would use it. - Jaycee Jay Anderson at the XXI 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it. - Gary Larson

Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together. - Unknown

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. - Sam Levenson

My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper. - S. Jane Sloat

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. - H P Lovecraft

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline. - Sid Waddell

I'm getting on. I'm now equipped with a snooze button. - Denis Norden

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. - Charles Baudelaire

A pin has as much head as some authors, and a good deal more point. - George D Prentice

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. - Robert A Heinlein

Irony: 1. Being witty at all costs; 2. A vegetarian catching swine flu. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. - Frederick Douglass

Humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin. - Maurizio Cattelan

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. - Frank Lloyd Wright

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. - John Brunner

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. - Karl W F Schlegel

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. - Napoleon Bonaparte

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them. - Robin Williams

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. - Maurice Sendak

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away. - Michelle Rowen

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. - Sandra Cisneros

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony... (she obviously hasn't been to #joekstergram) - Mary H K Choi

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. - W H Auden

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. - Mark Twain

My cell phone is acting up - I keep pressing the home button but when I look around, I'm still at work. - Unknown

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

Why is sunset more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, "Sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes." - Unknown

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. - David F Wallace

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. - Jessamyn West

Isn't it ironic? We ignore the ones who adore us; adore the ones who ignore us; love the ones who hurt us; and hurt the ones that love us. - Unknown

Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is; noise to appreciate silence; and absence to value presence. - Unknown

Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button. - Zeena Schreck