I had always been a cynic when it came to marriage.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

— Kenny Chesney

I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make…

— Princess Diana

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came…

— Peter Singer

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because…

— Michael Kors

Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But…

— Christine Ebersole

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been…

— Lisa Bonet

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Basava

“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.”

— Steve Madison

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite…

— Matt Taibbi

Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

— Mark Clifton

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

— Eliza Cook

“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…

— Mike Carey

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a…

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Criss Jami