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Aphorisms by categories » Altruism and Cynicism
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A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
H. Brooke
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar A. Shoaff
A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. De Mille
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."
Lord Greene
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.
Joan Powers
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Unknown
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Gore Vidal
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George Eliot
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
Josef Stalin
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
Peter Wastholm
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
P. J. O'Rourke
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Jr. King
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
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