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I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.
~famous curmudgeons by Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811
Life is one long process of getting tired.
~inspirational sayings about Curmudgeons quotes by Samuel Butler
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
~curmudgeons quotes by Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books, 1704
It is not a fragrant world.
~famous quotes about Curmudgeons by Raymond Chandler
Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.
~curmudgeons sayings by Author Unknown
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
~famous curmudgeons by Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
~inspirational sayings about Curmudgeons quotes by George Bernard Shaw
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
~curmudgeons quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
~famous quotes about Curmudgeons by William Hazlitt
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~curmudgeons sayings by Voltaire
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
~famous curmudgeons by William Shakespeare, King Lear
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
~inspirational sayings about Curmudgeons quotes by Peter McArthur
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
~curmudgeons quotes by Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
~famous quotes about Curmudgeons by W. Somerset Maugham
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~curmudgeons sayings by Author Unknown
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
~famous curmudgeons by H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, Notebooks, 1956
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
~good sayings about Self Discipline by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our country, right or wrongWhen right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right
~curmudgeons quotes by Carl Schurz
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~motivational quotes about Compassion sayings by Albert Schweitzer
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
~curmudgeons sayings by Roland Barthes
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else
~famous curmudgeons by Unknown
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
~good sayings about Grammar by Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language
[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
~curmudgeons quotes by Ted Koppel
I expect to pass through life but onceIf therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again
~motivational quotes about Sweetest Day sayings by William Penn
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
~curmudgeons sayings by Laurence J. Peter
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
~famous curmudgeons by George Bush
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
~good sayings about Civilization by Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
~curmudgeons quotes by William Arthur Ward
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
~motivational quotes about Funny Saying sayings by George Carlin
I love the confidence that makeup gives me
~curmudgeons sayings by Tyra Banks
Truth is not determined by majority vote
~famous curmudgeons by Doug Gwyn
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
~good sayings about Science by Stephen Jay Gould
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
~curmudgeons quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
~motivational quotes about Patience sayings by Michel de Montaigne
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~curmudgeons sayings by Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
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