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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
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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
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
The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
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)
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
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