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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

- Sidney J. Harris

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

- H. G. Wells

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

- Bertrand Russell

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

- H. L. Mencken

Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

- Russell Lynes

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

- Ambrose Bierce

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.

- George Meredith

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

- George Santayana

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

- Brendan Behan

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

- Kenneth Clark

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

- Lillian Hellman

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

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.

- Henry Ward Beecher