#Cynicism

"...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since."

"Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having."

"Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn."

"I am a citizen of the world."

"I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor."

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on."

"To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools."

"Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent."

"A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends."

"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."

"Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed."

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."

"In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success"

"Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God."

"All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."

"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?"