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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
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The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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