Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Maya Angelou

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zadie Smith

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Danish Proverb

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent

Proverb Proverb

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Charles Churchill

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Dean Koontz

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

Dar Williams

Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound?

Harry Anderson

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Clint Eastwood

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Studs Terkel

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Peter Drucker

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

James Rubin

She is also a realist and not a magician. She has realistic expectations about what can be achieved.

Olga Korbut

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Paul Samuelson

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.