Cynicism proverbs

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◆ Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

- George Carlin99

◆ I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

- Conan O'Brien99

◆ As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

- Bill Bryson99

◆ In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

- Sigmund Freud99

◆ Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

- Mike Royko99

◆ A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

- Scott Dikkers99

◆ Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

- Joseph Brodsky99

◆ Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

- Glen Cook99

◆ Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

- Stephen Colbert99

◆ Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!

- Jean Anouilh99

◆ Life is serious but art is fun!

- John Irving99

◆ Cynicism is the humour of hatred.

- Herbert Beerbohm98