Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
121–140 (174)
tiny.ag/r3gvjlqa · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
tiny.ag/hwvmnmsf · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
tiny.ag/bn17or2l · ★★☆☆ Fair (268 ratings) · submitted 1997
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
tiny.ag/g7qmt4qj · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
tiny.ag/avosjwgh · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/tnirgb8y · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
tiny.ag/jwmd8ebc · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
tiny.ag/jcmyu3ji · ★★☆☆ Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997
Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
tiny.ag/7gz85bqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/xhg05ovb · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never know how much of what I say is true.
tiny.ag/57fvsz6t · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
No good deed goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/kje1nil8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Grub first, then ethics.
tiny.ag/co7binat · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
tiny.ag/nsami72o · ★★☆☆ Fair (1208 ratings) · submitted 1997
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/rts5bix2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1008 ratings) · submitted 1997
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/bvtzf17g · ★★☆☆ Fair (1228 ratings) · submitted 1997
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/fcmzdpy1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · ★★☆☆ Fair (521 ratings) · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/764yzbuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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