Curmudgeon – Quotes

When people are free

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a \”surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow.\” … Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these … Read more

I don\’t answer the

I don’t answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. Fred Couples

I like long walks,

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen

Every revolution evaporates and

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka

It suddenly dawned on

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating — after all, they are women — but they cannot be curmudgeons. … Read more

I love mankind; it’s

I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand. Charles M. Schulz

The better I get

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. Charles de Gaulle

Suburbia is where the

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughan

My generation didn`t face

My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live … Read more