It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
We shall build on. On through the cynic
It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
