Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. – Henry Ward Beecher

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. – Frank Moore Colby