A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken Category: Cynicism
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. – Fannie Hurst Category: Cynicism
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. – Frank Moore Colby Category: Cynicism
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. – James A. Michener Category: Self-Discovery
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day Category: Curiosity
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. – John B. Priestly Category: Time
