Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thucydides

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Morris Dees

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

You'll reach the same conclusion as everyone else who's seen those tests: It's cheating,

Winners never cheat and cheaters never win...but sometimes they find themselves in court pleading guilty.

I'm shooting the puck more, but I know I need a big weekend to get 50 in 50. Especially on the power play, goalies cheat to Rob's side because he shoots the puck a lot every game, so I'm looking at a lot of empty nets. With me, I'm usually passing, but you try to mix it up so the goalie doesn't know what you're going to do.

We are doing nothing more than giving out gifts to corporate and insurance industries once again, while cheating our constituents out of the right to protections.

I worked for a guy who, if you wanted to get him excited about racing, tell him you were going to cheat on something and he was all for it. Otherwise, he'd stay out and go coon hunting all night.

I teach you to lie, cheat, and steal, and as soon as my back's turned you wait in line?

We really wanted to defend the paint. With the two big guys, we were able to cheat out on their shooters. We made 3-point shots tough.

Bob Hartley

We don't focus on the little details. Right now we're squeezing, we're squeezing the stick. If we would get an early goal, but we think that by cheating we're going to get that early goal, but it doesn't work like this.

We can't watch all those kids. We're teaching them responsibility; if they cheat (at practice) then they're cheating themselves.

Penn Jillette

Poker has the feeling of a sport but you don't have to do push-ups, ... How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richmond.

Sophocles

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

Janet Reno

I don't think you endorse something by purchasing it if it's the only game in town ... in terms of an effective machine, and the lowest price available,

P. J. O'Rourke

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

Mike Royko

Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax

Jason Giambi

It ain't cheating if you don't get caught.

Marilyn Monroe

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Shannon Sharpe

He didn't play because he was talented. He played because he cheated the system.

Damon Lindelof

I always get frustrated with movies and television shows that cheat. For example, if our season premiere started with those guys washing up on the beach? I would be like, wait a minute. Those guys were about 10 miles offshore. How did they get to the beach? I don't want to cheat.

I did lie and cheat and steal my way through this, but that's 'Survivor,' ... You think it's just a game, but it's not like sitting in your living room playing Monopoly - it's about people and relationships.

David Millar

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

David Mitchell

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Dave Barry

This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.

Alan Shearer

You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.

Charlie Munger

...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.

Eddie Guerrero

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

David Duchovny

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

To our knowledge, it is the first imaging study on people who lie, cheat and deceive as a group.

Blu Cantrell

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Kaley Cuoco

I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.