Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/f9zmepch · submitted 1997
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
tiny.ag/crm6g7ll · submitted 1997
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
tiny.ag/rxylykkp · submitted 1997
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
tiny.ag/pl60skge · submitted 1997
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
tiny.ag/4eq50acu · submitted 1997
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/3vps8ao4 · submitted 1998 by Caleb Ronsen
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
George Orwell, 1984, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/xhg05ovb · submitted 1997
I never know how much of what I say is true.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · submitted 1997
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
tiny.ag/6jxieopf · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
tiny.ag/7guwnmr1 · submitted 1997
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
tiny.ag/xhlm9fsi · submitted 1997
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
tiny.ag/rx3wkhug · submitted 1997
You are cautious in showing your true self to others. Have you thought about plastic surgery?
tiny.ag/qr9ysjed · submitted 1997
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
tiny.ag/bx0vlces · submitted 1997
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/u5uejalg · submitted 1999
Never give a sucker an even break and never smarten up a chump.
tiny.ag/l9caw6tv · submitted 1997
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
tiny.ag/vkemi9qo · submitted 1997
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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