Time Quote by Sydney J. Harris

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

— Sydney J. Harris

“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.”

— William Norwich

“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism – it's my least favorite quality, and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly…

— Conan O'Brien

“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ”

— Jayce O'Neal

“Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.”

— Bernard Lewis

“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to…

— Aldous Huxley

“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.”

— Erika Lopez

“there are brief enchanted moments in history and in the short lives of men and women, there is wonder and there is cynicism, there…

— Nelson DeMille

“No one is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics cannot relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight…

— Muriel Barbery

“Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.”

— Alen Sargsyan

“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

— Eleanor Catton

“There is nothing more bitter than an opportunist who miscalculates.”

— Jim Rose