Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Thank you for visiting these Cynics Sayings and Quotes. I hope you find value in these Quotes and Sayings about Cynics from my large collection of Inspirational Sayings.
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
Related topics: Family Relationship Sad Feeling-Down Government Political Cynical Education Lesson
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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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 let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Computers happen.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thank you for visiting: Cynics Sayings - Cynics Quotes - Sayings about Cynics.
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.