......a curmudgeon.



Behind the sweet facáde... the disguise,
is a curmudgeon to equal the best of them.

If you dare to admit that you are one too,
then you will be in good company here.

I have selected the quotes I would have thought of myself,
had I not been involved in chat for so long.


"Dalia ought to have done much better this year
but she has wasted so much time chatting."
Holy Trinity C.E. School, London 1962


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People are born ignorant not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Mark Twain


"Hey teacher ............... " "All in all ................ "
Pink


In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Nietzsche


Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler


A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Kin Hubbard


Beggars should be abolished.
It annoys one to give to them,
and it annoys one not to give to them.
Nietzsche


Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw


There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw


To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anaesthesia.
H.L. Mencken


To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp


I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W.C. Fields


I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde


Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
Karl Kraus


Hatred is by far the longest pleasure.
People love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron


The only thing worse than being talked about
is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde


Government is an association of people who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy


Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort


Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain


On the whole human beings want to be good,
but not too good, and not all the time.
George Orwell






If you have come thus far and still need a defintion.. here it is......
cur mud geon
* anyone who hates hyprocricy and pretense and has the temerity to say so;
* anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humourous manner.

Enjoy !