Please enjoy these Cynical quotes. After you have browsed through these quotes about being cynical, pause for a moment to consider what role you want cynicism and being cynical to play in your life.
Cynical Quotes: Sayings and Quotes about Being Cynical ...
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W.C. Fields
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W.C. Fields
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
- Stephen Hawking
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- anonymous
When you argue with reality, you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock in Star Trek VI
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
- Anonymous
The four most important words in any marriage..."I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The rich are not born skeptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Yesterday is like a dung heap. You can complain about the smell or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden. - jlh
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes, is that nothing will work out the way you want. Life is fully as bad as you think it is - some days just go to Hell faster than others. - jlh
A Cynic is one understands that people are motivated wholly by self-interest. Do not confuse this factual definition of Cynic with the ill-spirited description, "a sneering and sarcastic faultfinding critic."
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes, is that nothing will work out the way you want. Life is fully as bad as you think it is - some days just go to Hell faster than others. - jlh
A Cynic is one understands that people are motivated wholly by self-interest. Do not confuse this factual definition of Cynic with the ill-spirited description, "a sneering and sarcastic faultfinding critic."
Monday, June 14, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Great Mark Twain quote
Mark Twain: Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Everyone does what they do, and it is meddling to try to stop them .
Everyone does what they do, and it is meddling to try to stop them.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
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