Main menu  Home  Categories  Authors  Quote of the Day  Contacts  Site map Advertisement iWinkels.be snel gemakkelijk de juiste winkel of winkels vinden Quotations by category » Cynicism Quotes: 1 - 11 of 11 Pages: 1  A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word Ralph Waldo Emerson Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman Cynicism is intellectual treason. Norman Cousins Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. Friedrich Nietzsche In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically Vincent van Gogh It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side Molly Ivins Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The cynics are right nine times out of ten. Henry Louis Mencken What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde Quotes: 1 - 11 of 11 Pages: 1  All quotations are property and copyright of their authors © 2006-2008, Land of Wisdom