Cynic Quote by Vachel Lindsay Download Open image “Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.” — Vachel Lindsay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynic Cynicism Devil Gentle Helping Pessimism Sneer
I know how tempting such cynicism may be. But I still think the cynics are wrong. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it. — Ekta Kapoor Copy Share Image
I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly, Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap, Not that they serve, but have no… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo . . . Jumbo . . . will . . . hoo-doo . . . you. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled:… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong,… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
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