Ironic quotes

[Member2047631]

Post your ironic quotes here

'Your vote counts' the more people vote, the less a single vote counts.

 

[Hadron]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"

The last words of General John Sedgwick.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Kill shots don't always fit the Sniper's triangle. - dontpanicbobby

 

[dontpanicbobby]

"If man were meant to fly, he would have been born with wings".

No one knows who said this first, but...
Ironic. Don't you think?

 

[shalemail]

Traffic Jam when you're already late
A no smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife

 

[Member2047631]

That was from Vsauce yet that's not actually ironic

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Deep.

 

[Member2047631]

They're just bummers

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Tru' that...

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you - Harlan Ellison

 

[shalemail]

Apparently not to dialed in to popular culture? (In the US anyway) ... I was referencing a song, just a joke not an actual ironic statement, so I guess it's ironic like that.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

You forgot: It's like rain on your wedding day @shalemail. That's the real hook.

 

[Member2047631]

Apparently not to dialed in to popular culture? (In the US anyway) ... I was referencing a song, just a joke not an actual ironic statement, so I guess it's ironic like that.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jne9t8sHpUc?wmode=opaque

I know it was a song, I watch Vsauce 😉

 

[dontpanicbobby]

That begs the question.

 

[rootabaga]

I think, perhaps, that this just might fit here...

 

[Member243850]

"Man will not fly for 50 years!"

- Wilbur Wright

 

[Member 1919122]

It's not over until it's over.
Yogi Berra....
https://www.google.com/search?q=it'...id-att-aio-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

[Member243850]

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
— Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles (1962).

LOL!!!!!

Oh my word that me made me laugh!

I think this most probably goes under top 10 " I must not just - open mouth insert foot - I must eat my own shoes!" quotes of all time - wow that was an insane / massive mistake!

 

[lunatic59]

"We don't think aliens eating our product is a good message."

-- M&M Mars rejecting the offer to sponsor the movie E.T., which was ultimately accepted by the H. B. Reese Co.

 

[helenvn]

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

 

[Milo Willamson]

"No matter what kids get into these days, they will never grow up."

 

[lunatic59]

"Nobody goes to Coney Island any more, it's too crowded."

--Yogi Berra

 

[Milo Willamson]

I may look like a potato now, but when I turn into fries.

You all want me then.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Two years from now Spam will be solved.
Bill Gates, 2004.

 

[lunatic59]

Spoiler

Just so you know, checking here without solving it yourself is cheating

Spoiler

FOOD COURT

 

[Milo Willamson]

Irony we know so much of technology, but do we understand ourselves?