Cynical Quotes - Page 3

• Love is the fart
  Of every heart
  It pains the man when 'tis kept close,
  And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

  John Suckling

  Pain, Heart, Love Is

  1646 'Love's Offence'.

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• A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Thankful Heart

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• My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Teenager, Funny Relationship

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Cynicism, Idealism, Idealist

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• If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  First Love, Long, Faithful

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• On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:
  Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Home, Self

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• I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Political, Immature

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• It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

  Brendan Behan

  Respect, Ireland And The Irish, Wonderful

  "Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections". Book by E. H. Mikhail, Vol. 2 (p. 186), 1982.

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• All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

  Conan O'Brien

  Happiness, Hate, People

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• Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

  John W. Gardner

  Integrity, Men, People

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.164, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Up, Beautiful, Breakup

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• When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
  The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
  but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
  and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Sea, Pirate

  Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

  Allan Bloom

  Learning, Political, Ignorant

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  Lionel Trilling

  Believe, Heart, Imagine

  "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Clever, Ideas

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• If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

  Isaac Goldberg

  Men, Trying, Anti Love

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• The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

  Paul Getty

  Events, Way, Rich

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• The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Love One Another, Reason

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• Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

  Don Aitkin

  Democracy, Election, Politician

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• Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ideas, Literature, Being True

  A Book of Burlesques ch. 11 (1920)

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• The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

  Sarah Silverman

  Smart, Mean, Hopeful

  FaceBook post by Sarah Silverman from Mar 16, 2011

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