“Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”– Aldous Huxley Related Quotes “Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.”– Billy Sunday “I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”– Henry David Thoreau “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”– Cary Grant