Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
41–60 (174)
tiny.ag/sdmeheo7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (301 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
tiny.ag/gymh6otw · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
tiny.ag/ne1vhxlr · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
tiny.ag/7do2rifh · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What is Man?, 1906, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/r6bo5aic · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Black, white, brown, yellow or even red, we piss with our pants down, and go naked to bed.
tiny.ag/dliywafc · ★★☆☆ Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1997
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/k8lcsqdw · ★★☆☆ Fair (934 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/amzxlbug · ★★☆☆ Fair (148 ratings) · submitted 1997
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
tiny.ag/58hbs9pq · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
tiny.ag/5otyux70 · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
tiny.ag/otpgz4zj · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
tiny.ag/vinogpxg · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
tiny.ag/apirm627 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
tiny.ag/hq8w7xao · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
tiny.ag/dfwohelg · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
tiny.ag/wqt4ciab · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
tiny.ag/9m1hmtxp · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity.
tiny.ag/itutlzy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/lkgjcwse · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it.
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