The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth.
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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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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. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye
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Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.
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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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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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I'm a hopeful cynic.
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to
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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 only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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It all depends on what you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
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It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
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That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.
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I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)
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