Quote by James G. Cozzens

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that the

Summary

This quote suggests that cynicism stems from a disillusionment and disappointment experienced in childhood. It implies that a cynic is someone who, at an early age, discovered that things are not always as they seem, specifically referring to the lack of belief in Santa Claus. The cynic remains upset and skeptical about everything, carrying a skepticism and distrust that originated from this childhood realization. Ultimately, the quote highlights the idea that cynics have deep-seated disillusionment stemming from early experiences.

Topics

Cynicism

By James G. Cozzens

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a assa

If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a assa idiot. If thats the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experienceby experience.

Charles Dickens

I like progress but I hate change.

I like progress but I hate change.

Change

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

Positive

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfe

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

Design

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that econ

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Economics

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating a

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Concentration

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacles to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with out friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Happiness Pain

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Imagination

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a prob

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Perception

When you strike at a king, you must kill him

When you strike at a king, you must kill him

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night o

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

Cassandra Clare

Will Herondale Tessa Gray Clockwork Prince Jem Carstairs

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately en

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Sheilah Graham, The Rest of the

Desires