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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
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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 man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
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 like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
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
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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