What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark,...
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach
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A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
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When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin
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I'm a hopeful cynic.
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The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth.
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A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
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[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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