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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Cynics.
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- 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
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
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)
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
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
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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