Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
121–140 (174)
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/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/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.
tiny.ag/asecpbyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
tiny.ag/0ihiksxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. Allen Smith, Let the Crabgrass Grow, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/dtxsg5kf · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/kdbyxotm · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
tiny.ag/dxokyfu8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
tiny.ag/np9dvtka · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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/mtktl96r · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
tiny.ag/gvohc8br · ★★☆☆ Fair (3332 ratings) · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
tiny.ag/poggndv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2925 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/q93dw7gi · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
tiny.ag/vgoawlvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
tiny.ag/xhlm9fsi · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
tiny.ag/k40t75a9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (885 ratings) · submitted 1997
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
tiny.ag/t4nrvjai · ★★☆☆ Fair (859 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/ijcqpq8f · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do good by stealth.
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