I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

— Walt Whitman

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

— Nathan McCall

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

— John Lee Hancock

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

— Michael Crichton

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

— Lillian Hellman

What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.

— K. Hari Kumar

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

— Susie Derkins

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

— Tom Waits

Nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.

— Doris Block

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

— Bryant McGill