Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism...

She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths.

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.

I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE – currently not listed)

Only a cynic can create horror–for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock...

I can’t bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

The doctor’s wife wasn’t a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

This boy,” he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, “was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful...

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

It’s weird, marriage. It’s like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their ‘other half.

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

That’s what I’ve never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with...

I conceal myself behind cynicism because it’s safe. Camouflage is more protective than body armor. Why do you think the Department of Defense contacted me to design a gun that shoots insults?

Mitch’s take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish.

The first rule in life is ‘everybody lies.’ Remember that and you’ll get a lot further.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.””We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.