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"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."

Borge, Victor on humor
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"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."

Mencken, H. L. on cynics and cynicism    Share

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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Mencken, H. L. on cynics and cynicism
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"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."

Harris, Sidney J. on cynics and cynicism
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"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on cynics and cynicism    Share

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"I'm a hopeful cynic."

Chapman, Tracy on cynics and cynicism
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"A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be."

Bierce, Ambrose on cynics and cynicism
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"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."

Beecher, Henry Ward on cynics and cynicism
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"Cynicism is the humor of hatred."

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm on cynics and cynicism    Share

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"Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language."

Woolf, Virginia on translation
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"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten."

Rourke, Constance on humor
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"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you."

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm on humor    Share

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"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on quotations
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"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Twain, Mark on humor
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

Shaw, George Bernard on cynics and cynicism    Share

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I'm female, single from Australia and made my book on 21st April 2009.

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Is cool. Likes pickles. And Good Charlotte. =]

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Hmm...I don't know. It's pretty much all up there. =D Okay. Hmm...I like snails as well. They're pretty cute, if you stop to look at them... About me...I'm very sarcastic (apparently) but you can be the judge of that. Btw...I don't actually like pickles. The word itself is pretty cool though. Good Charlotte, Sum 41, American Hi-Fi ftw!!!

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