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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
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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
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
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
The world's mental.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
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