Ironic Quotes

Ironic Quote of the day

What gets measured gets managed.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

All language is but a poor translation.

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

I drink to forget I drink.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.

Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.