Heinrich Heine (letters):
Alas, the irony of God weighs heavily upon me. the great Author of the universe, the Aristophanes of heaven, wished to show me –the little, earthly, so-called German Aristophanes– as glaringly as possible what feeble little jests my most bitter sarcasms were in comparison with His own, and how inferior I was to Him in humor and in giant wit.