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Cynicism
Cynical Quotations
"A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa." ~ Evan Esar
"Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours." ~ H.L. Mencken
"Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens." ~ Nick Diamos
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. " ~ G. K. Chesterton
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices" ~ William James
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." ~ Will Rogers
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'". ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." ~ William Safire
"It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents." ~ Judy Carter
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." ~ Mark Twain
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." ~ Quentin Crisp
"Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one." ~ Evan Esar
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." ~ William S. Burroughs
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." ~ Charles de Gaulle
"Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car." ~ Evan Davis
"Start off every day with a smile and get it over with." ~ W.C. Fields
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." ~Robert Wilensky
What's YOUR favourite quotation?
Do you know any misquotations?
Do you have a correction?
contributions :
please send the words, who said them - with as much detail as you can; why it was said (or not said), when, to whom ... whatever you can. I always acknowledge any help.
Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]