Ironic Fate Quotes

Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.

For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.