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.
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical. " Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?
