Cynical Quotes
Cynical Sayings (2)

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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.

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg

Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron

Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau

A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy

Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn

Millions long for immortality
who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung

If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein

Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb

Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung

No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde

Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous

I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain

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