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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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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
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
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
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
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
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
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
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