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Cynical Quotes
Cynical Sayings (6)
Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin
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God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
In every country and every age,
the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
- Abraham Lincoln
Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
- Margaret Mead
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion.
The several sects perform the office of a Censor -
over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson
Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever starts in California,
unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
- Jimmy Carter
Don't underestimate your abilities,
that's your boss's job.
- Anonymous
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- John Lennon
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Experience demands that man is
the only animal which devours his own kind,
for I can apply no milder term to
the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor
I am bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Washington is a city of
Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The reason why the world lacks unity,
and lies broken and in heaps,
is, because man is disunited with himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
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