Cynical Quotes
Cynical Sayings
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill 
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
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