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| There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. ~ Edgar A. Shoaff |
| It is not a fragrant world. ~ Raymond Chandler |
| I don’t answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~ Fred Couples |
| I love mankind – it’s people I can’t stand. ~ Charles M. Schulz, |
| Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit. ~ Author Unknown |
| There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~ Fran Lebowitz |
| A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
| I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them. ~ W. Somerset Maugham |
| [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~ John Stuart Mill, |
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| When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. ~ William Shakespeare, |
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.
~ William Cowper |
| Life is one long process of getting tired. ~ Samuel Butler |
| Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. ~ Jonathan Swift, |
| Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink. ~ Mark Twain, |
| Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? ~ Mark Twain, |
| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
Nothing is more miserable than man,
Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps.
~ Homer, |
| Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. ~ William Shakespeare, |
| I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~ William Hazlitt |
| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun’s scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth. ~ Thiognis |
| We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~ Kenneth Clark |
| Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. ~ Edgar Saltus |
| Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. ~ Bill Press |
| I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ~ Voltaire |
| He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. ~ Willa Cather |
| We semaphore from ship to ship, but they’re sinking, too. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other’s pain, and perish in our own. ~ Francis Thompson |
| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ~ Ernest Hemingway |