Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. -- Addison Mizner and Oliver Herford, "The Entirely New Cynic's Calendar", 1905 | |
Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" | |
Cynic, n.: Experienced. | |
Cynic, n.: One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye. | |
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Edgar A. Shoaff | |
I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic |