A Wee Fit

Never insult anyone by accident. - Robert A. Heinlein

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. - Elizabeth Bibesco

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. - Samuel Butler

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Praise the bridge that carried you over. - George Colman

People use irony as a defense mechanism. - David Byrne

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. - James Douglas

Substance is not enough, accident is also required. - Greek Proverb

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. - Lauren Bacall

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

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

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional. - Amy Grant

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

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

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

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

I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach. - Upton Sinclair

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. - Charles Lamb

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

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

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation. - Mrs. Hubbard Davis

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman

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

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled. - Paulo Coelho

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb

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

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller

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

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

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

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin

He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me. - Neal Stephenson