Cynical Quotes
Cynical Sayings (3)

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

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

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I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon

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

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

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann

The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous

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

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein

Trumpet in a herd of elephants;
crow in the company of cocks;
bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown

Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides

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

Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Computers happen.
- Anonymous

Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage,
you get a lot more sunshine in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

That's the secret to life . . .
replace one worry with another.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

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

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee

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

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

In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

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

If people are good only because they
fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein

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

There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins

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