Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

A liar should have a good memory.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

When defeat is inevitable it is wisest to yield.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.