Curmudgeon Quotes
+3When you face the sun, all the shadows fall behind you.
- Helen Keller
+3There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
- Maya Angelou
+1I love mankind it’s people I can’t stand.
— Charles M. Schulz
+1Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
+1Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
— Bill Press
+1We semaphore from ship to ship, but they’re sinking, too.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We are adhering to life now with our last muscle the heart.
— Djuna Barnes
+1A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
+1I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.
— W. Somerset Maugham
+1The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
— Charles
+1Comfort, or revelation:God owes us one of these but surely not both.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1A cynic is a person searching for an honest man with a stolen lantern.
— Edgar A. Shoaff
+1Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
— Edgar Saltus
+1I like long walks, especially when they’re taken by people who annoy me.
— Fred Allen
+1Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
— Bill Fitch
+1This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
— John Berryman
+1When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
— William Shakespeare
+1There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
— Fran Lebowitz
+1The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
— Alban Goodier
+1I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
— William Makepeace
+1Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew.
— William Shakespeare
+1Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
- Robert Frost
+1The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
— Martin Esslin
+1Nothing is more miserable than man, Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps.
- Homer J Simpson
+1You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
— Albert Einstein
+1We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
— Kenneth Clark
+1Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
- Jonathan Swift
+1I don’t answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
— Fred Couples
+1A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
— Peter McArthur
+1Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved?
— Mark Twain
+1Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other’s pain, and perish in our own.
— Francis Thompson
+1Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1All our lives we are putting pennies our most golden pennies into penny in the slot machines that are almost always empty.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
+1The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
— G.K. Chesterton
+1Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
— Mark Twain
+1Janie’s a pretty typical teenager angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that’s all going to pass, but I don’t want to lie to her.
— Alan Ball
