Cynical Quotes

• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Disappointment, Humor

  "A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist" by Carol Smaldino, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  Hank Ketcham

  Inspirational, Gum, Flattery

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• Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Being Happy, Religion

  A Mencken Chrestomathy ch. 30 (1949)

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• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Freedom, Law

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Political, Energy

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• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Money

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  If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

  Thomas Szasz

  Depression, Prayer, Humorous

  The Second Sin "Schizophrenia" (1973)

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• The opposite of creativity is cynicism

  Esa Saarinen

  Creativity, Opposites, Cynicism

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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Ideas

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• Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Belief, Internet

  "Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.

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• The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Marriage, Men

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• I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dirty, Naughty, Views

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• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Flower, Humor

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Revolution, Democracy, Election

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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• Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

  Peter McWilliams

  Hate, Believe, Different

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.30, St. Martin's Press

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• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Inspiring, Appreciation

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

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• Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Success, Kings, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 17, 2015

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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