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Tue 16 Nov, 2004 11:15 am
"A cynic is merely an idealist that's been disappointed once too often"
I've always like this definition:
A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
But I do agree that your quote is true.
I like that first one. Very true
Both are excellent!! Personally, I fit the first more than I would like to admit, but I do have a friend who fits the second to a tee.
I think I am attitudinally challenged today for some reason.
With hope that I be not a cynic I ask what, ultimately, is man but a highly intelligent and trecherously irrational machine for converting the finest products of the culinary arts to toxic waste.
Welcome to A2K, Allsixkinds. You're certainly cynical enough to fit right in.
Allsixkinds never use your microwave for cooking. I only use it to heat water and warm up my bait. We have some real chefs on the boaards here, Im not one , but Im learning, so dont give up and welcome on the boat. DO NOT EVER STICK YER HANDS IN THE WATER, THERES STUFF DOWN THERE THAT EVEN SCIENCE DOESNT KNOW ABOUT
I like your quote, BPB. Who said it?
I also wonder whether you can be a cynic without first having been an idealist.
Is there a cure for cyniscism?
death...cures everything....
Aren't you too optimist, BPB? No cure for taxes, no.
Hemingway said it best in Death in the Afternoon. "Madam, there is no remedy for anything."
BPB wrote:
Quote:death...cures everything....
But cynical old people tend to live longer.
Noddy24 wrote:BPB wrote:
Quote:death...cures everything....
But cynical old people tend to live longer.
Then send me your address so I can go ahead and send you an invitation to my 100th birthday party :wink:
"The cure for cynicism is to learn to like yourself," says John Steinbeck
Bear--
I won't need the invitation. I'm sure when you reach your centenary that the party will be audible at my house--although probably muted if my windows are closed.
IIll prolly be out cruisin on my Triumph cause it wont be finished for anotther 40 0r 50 years.
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