Office Irony

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. - Samuel Butler

There are no office hours for leaders. - Cardinal J Gibbons

People use irony as a defense mechanism. - David Byrne

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. - Mason Cooley

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. - George Saunders

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

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. - H P Lovecraft

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. - Heloise Cruse

You do well to consider the office your own, for you bought it. - Julius Caesar's father

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. - Aesop

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. - Robert A Heinlein

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out. - Alejandro G Inarritu

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

There is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. - Gary Hart

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. - Karl W F Schlegel

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. - Karl W F Schlegel

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

I had the most boring office job in the world - I used to clean the windows on envelopes. - Rita Rudner

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

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not professional anymore. - Jeff Foxworthy

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says when he's in love, drunk or running for office. - Shirley Maclaine

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

True kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams. - Marcel Wanders

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. - Milton Berle

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it because when they fired me, I had to show up at work anyway. - Wally Wang

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. - Estelle Morris

The Brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

There was a fire at the main Inland Revenue office in London today, but it was put out before any serious good was done. - Ronnie Corbett

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

Why is sunset more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, "Sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes." - Unknown

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

I love working for myself from home. I get along with everyone in the office; I can show up in pajamas, and I always win Employee of the Month. - Missy Miwac

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