Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 12 comments
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tiny.ag/mgrteolp · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/hq8w7xao · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
tiny.ag/apirm627 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
tiny.ag/dfwohelg · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
tiny.ag/wqt4ciab · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
tiny.ag/q5s2gnzy · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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/np9dvtka · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
tiny.ag/dxokyfu8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
tiny.ag/kdbyxotm · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
tiny.ag/dtxsg5kf · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
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/asecpbyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
tiny.ag/nqcfjvh0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
tiny.ag/poggndv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2925 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/tnwmsadk · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
tiny.ag/rxmfom0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (96 ratings) · submitted 1997
The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.
tiny.ag/sc3tpgkp · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ceh5zfoy · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are two reasons for doing something: a really good reason and the real reason.
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