1. Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.-Anatole France
2. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too-W. Somerset Maugham
3. Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
4. Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.-Wes Studi
5. Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.-Samuel Butler
6. Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.-Douglas Coupland
7. I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.-Neal Shusterman
8. It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything.-Alexander Mccall Smith
9. Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.-Rene Descartes
10. Irony is Fate’s most common figure of speech.-Trevanian
11. Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.-Bill Nye
12. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.-Socrates
13. The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.-Robert A. Heinlein
14. Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do.-Soren Kierkegaard
15. My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch-Jack Nicholson
16. Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment-Edwin P. Whipple
17. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.-Agnes Repplier
18. Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.-Philip K. Dick
19. The shortest distance between two points is under construction.-Noelie Altito
20. Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.-Robert Anthony
21. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.-Daniel J. Boorstin
22. People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.-Calvin
23. 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
24. Irony is the hygiene of the mind.-Elizabeth Bibesco
25. Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.-Mason Cooley
26. Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.-Rufus Choate
27. Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.-Jean Stafford
28. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.-Herman Hesse
29. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.-Blaise Pascal