Quotes Tagged With :cynicism

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that....

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy.....

...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting....

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.....

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody....

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

It's strange but as I grow older, I find myself developing more optimism. I keep inching toward the point....

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people....