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The Cynics Corner Club (spam only on topic please)
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Chimaera182
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TonyMontana1638
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I'm frefraining from spamming this thread with an ungodly number of Richard Lewis quotes, but I don't know how long I'll be able to last... Chew on these in the meantime
"Men are to the Gods as flies are to wanton boys, they kill us for sport."
-William Shakespeare
(1)"What do they do?"
(2)"They don't do anything sir, they're nihilists."
(1)"Huh, that must be exhausting."
-(2)Phillip Seymour Hoffman and (1)Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski
This is quite possibly the most depressing quote ever, courtesy of the genius existentialist Franz Kafka... taken from a love letter he wrote.
"Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself."
-Letters to Milena
And another great Kafka quote
"There is only the spiritual word; what we call the physical world is the evil and in the spiritual one."
Doesn't get much worse than that, eh? Can't really even call it cynicism...
"Men are to the Gods as flies are to wanton boys, they kill us for sport."
-William Shakespeare
(1)"What do they do?"
(2)"They don't do anything sir, they're nihilists."
(1)"Huh, that must be exhausting."
-(2)Phillip Seymour Hoffman and (1)Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski
This is quite possibly the most depressing quote ever, courtesy of the genius existentialist Franz Kafka... taken from a love letter he wrote.
"Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself."
-Letters to Milena
And another great Kafka quote
"There is only the spiritual word; what we call the physical world is the evil and in the spiritual one."
Doesn't get much worse than that, eh? Can't really even call it cynicism...
"Be thankful you're healthy."
"Be bitter you're not going to stay that way."
"Be glad you're even alive."
"Be furious you're going to die."
"Things could be much worse."
"They could be one hell of a lot better."
"Be bitter you're not going to stay that way."
"Be glad you're even alive."
"Be furious you're going to die."
"Things could be much worse."
"They could be one hell of a lot better."
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TonyMontana1638
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[QUOTE=Phreddie]Bump, To: Tony myself and others. Use this thread for all cynical quotes.[/QUOTE]
Wonderful! More cynical goodness...
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
-Voltaire
I suppose the quote from my sig works darn well... No, no, not slade's quote...
"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
-George Carlin
Wonderful! More cynical goodness...
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
-Voltaire
I suppose the quote from my sig works darn well... No, no, not slade's quote...
"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
-George Carlin
"Be thankful you're healthy."
"Be bitter you're not going to stay that way."
"Be glad you're even alive."
"Be furious you're going to die."
"Things could be much worse."
"They could be one hell of a lot better."
"Be bitter you're not going to stay that way."
"Be glad you're even alive."
"Be furious you're going to die."
"Things could be much worse."
"They could be one hell of a lot better."
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Chimaera182
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[QUOTE=Fiona]Another from H L Mencken
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under"[/QUOTE]
I know I am.
This is kind of depressing, but I suppose it's true when you think about it. But I used to be an avid hater of drug abusers, until a few years ago...
"Addicts are the ones who realize all hope of actual happiness lies not in life but in leaving it for brief periods."
P.S. not that I should be hawking this or whatever, but the night I got blitzed on alcohol and then got high on weed was the happiest night of my life, so I genuinely believe the above.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under"[/QUOTE]
I know I am.
This is kind of depressing, but I suppose it's true when you think about it. But I used to be an avid hater of drug abusers, until a few years ago...
"Addicts are the ones who realize all hope of actual happiness lies not in life but in leaving it for brief periods."
P.S. not that I should be hawking this or whatever, but the night I got blitzed on alcohol and then got high on weed was the happiest night of my life, so I genuinely believe the above.
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Nothing so focuses a man's mind as the thought of being hung first thing in the morning.
-- Dr. Samuel Johnson
Every man needs something to believe in. I believe I'll have another drink.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
-- W.C. Fields
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt
-- Groucho Marx
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. It's the smell of victory.
-- Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now)
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
-- H.L. Mencken
-- Dr. Samuel Johnson
Every man needs something to believe in. I believe I'll have another drink.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
-- W.C. Fields
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt
-- Groucho Marx
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. It's the smell of victory.
-- Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now)
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
-- H.L. Mencken
Mistah Kurtz, he dead.
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Fiona
Robert Burns is said to have watched as a sailor jumped into the harbour to rescue a rich man who had fallen into the water. As a reward, the rich man gave his rescuer a shilling. The crowd became angry at the small amount but Burns observed :
"This gentleman is the best judge of the value of his own life".
"This gentleman is the best judge of the value of his own life".
