Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up.

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.