Quotes on curmudgeon
All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
Snicket, Lemony
I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!"
Mill, John Stuart
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
Wolf, David T.
The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage.
Anonymous
The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
Goodier, Alban
Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
Press, Bill
I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.
Byron, George Gordon
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
McLaughlin, Mignon
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Swift, Jonathan
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
Couples, Fred
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
Bryant, William Cullen
I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
Allen, Fred
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Angelou, Maya
Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
Snicket, Lemony
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Beecher, Henry Ward
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
McArthur, Peter
Janie'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.
Ball, Alan
I am too tired to fight, but too stubborn to conform to the ways of this fucked up world. I give up.
Unknown, Author