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I am not a cynic.
I'm an old cynic.
I'm a hopeful cynic.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
We shall build on. On through the cynic
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.
A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.
It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
It's one thing to be a cynic or an opponent of Jim Harbaugh if you're a fan of Ohio State or Michigan State or Penn State or an SEC school.
I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.