Cynical Quotes - Page 4

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

  Budd Schulberg

  Inspirational, Car, Driving

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• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Hate

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  Eddie Cantor

  Marriage, Wedding, Flower

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Democracy, Want, Way

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• Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• False hope really makes you cynical.

  Bill Maher

  False Hope

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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• People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Bills, Brag

  "God Is Not. Great!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

  Lili Taylor

  Strange Places, Trying, Cannes

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• They love too much that die for love.

  John Ray

  Too Much, Dies

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.15

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• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Men, Differences

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Respect, Religious

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• Self improvement is masturbation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Development, Improvement

  Chuck Palahniuk (2014). “Beautiful You: A Novel”, p.199, Anchor

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• No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

  Lily Tomlin

  Matter, Enough

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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• The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

  Winston Churchill

  Statistics

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• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Democracy, Mediocrity, Festivals

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

  Ron Dart

  Media, Political, Affection

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• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

  Chrestomathy (1949) ch. 30

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• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Kings, Democracy, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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