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October 07, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Better to be merry some of the time, and miserable some of the time, than to be merely well-adjusted all of the time." -- Rick Bayan

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July 28, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Ideologies are the second-hand clothes of the intellectual world." -- Rick Bayan

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May 27, 2014

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it. -- Daniel Waters

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March 05, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - It's one damn thing over and over. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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February 26, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

Life is just one damned thing after another. -- Elbert Hubbard

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July 29, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

I am Diogenes the dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels. -- Diogenes the Cynic

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July 05, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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June 30, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. -- Frank Zappa

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June 28, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. -- Denis Diderot

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June 13, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. -- H. L. Mencken

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June 07, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Live as long as you please; you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

-- Michel de Montaigne

 

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May 29, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner

 

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April 10, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther

 

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March 29, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire

 

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March 25, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. -- Aldous Huxley

 

 

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March 22, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Jonathan Swift

 

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March 18, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. -- Quentin Crisp

 

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March 16, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

I don't read no papers and I don't listen to the radio either. I know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber and I don't need to read about it. -- Walter Brennan

 

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March 09, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong. -- Robert J. Ringer

 

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March 05, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw

 

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February 23, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -- Flannery O'Connor

 

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February 16, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

How many things I have no need of! – Socrates

 

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January 12, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer

 

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January 04, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

You are free and that is why you are lost. -- Franz Kafka

 

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December 24, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Jonathan Swift

 

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December 16, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

God grant me the company of those who seek the truth, and God deliver me from those who have found it. -- Sir Isaac Newton

 

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December 07, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.  -- Henry David Thoreau

 

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December 06, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates

 

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December 04, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell

 

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November 18, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston S. Churchill

 

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November 11, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. -- H. L. Mencken

 

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