Quotes by Beecher, Henry Ward

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting for >>

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On th >>

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. >>

Quotations about Cynics and Cynicism

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he i >>

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. >>

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. >>

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Beecher, Henry Ward