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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken

Man, Flowers, Looks, He, Who, Smells

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. Joyce Brothers

Love, Butterfly, Balance, Help, Rebel

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it. H. P. Lovecraft

Beauty, Perfect, True, Worship, Possible

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.' John W. Gardner

Man, Say, Only, Anything, Says

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. Glenn Beck

Romantic, Remember, Lies, Beneath, Every

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou

Young, Nothing, Believing, Knowing, Gone

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde

Man, Value, Price, Nothing, Everything

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland

Woman, Wit, Text, Sinner, Justification

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God, Faith, Effort, Blind, Belief, Satan

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist. Noam Chomsky

Free, Tradition, Say, Why, Exist, Use

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? Eliza Cook

Down, Why, Fairy, Strive, Castles, Knock

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce

Vision, Things, Whose, Sees, Ought

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. Sydney J. Harris

Short, Long, Done, Run, Matter, Realist

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Fannie Hurst

Man, Wise, Enough, Wise Man, Clever

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical. Penn Jillette

I Am, People, Me, Know, Person, Cynical

Idealist: a cynic in the making. Irving Layton

Making, Idealist

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. Paul Getty

Born, Pessimist, I Was Born, Deny

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it. Kristen Bell

Girl, Nervous, Real, Sarcastic, Tomboy

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. Carl Icahn

Democracy, Corporate, About, Boards

I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship. Sonam Kapoor

Love, Relationship, Better, Believe, Way

I'm a hopeful cynic. Tracy Chapman

I am not a cynic. Kevin Costner

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway. Julian Baggini

Challenge, Progress, Better, Bad, More

The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life. Gunnar Myrdal

Life, Faith, Rest, American, True, Him

The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything. Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Romantic, Pain, Joy, Me, Believing

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong. Tom King

Good, Best, You, Wrong, Proving, Being

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