Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Lois

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Emily Mortimer

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Peter Ustinov

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Paul Tillich

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Paul Kagame

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

R. C. Sproul

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Paul Christopher

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Nancy Mitford

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.

Michael Shermer

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Nicolas Cage

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.

Matt Taibbi

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

Peter Drucker

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Matt LeBlanc

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

Maya Angelou

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Matt Smith

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

John Ray

They love too much that die for love.

James Gunn

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Tanith Lee

No one more cynical than an idealist.

Ulysses S. Grant

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Ricky Gervais

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zach Galifianakis

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

W. Somerset Maugham

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Joss Whedon

I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.