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The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Cynical Religion
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
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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
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
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)
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
"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
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
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
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
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
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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