Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/5otyux70 · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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/r1bfukdv · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
tiny.ag/q6kxew3z · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
tiny.ag/sdmeheo7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (301 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
tiny.ag/ne1vhxlr · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
tiny.ag/7do2rifh · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What is Man?, 1906, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/r6bo5aic · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Black, white, brown, yellow or even red, we piss with our pants down, and go naked to bed.
tiny.ag/otpgz4zj · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
tiny.ag/gymh6otw · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
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/vinogpxg · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
tiny.ag/fjkyccqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
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/pjkyl6oi · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
tiny.ag/lhf5xdsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Ayn Rand, (commencement speech to Naval Academy), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/ijcqpq8f · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do good by stealth.
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