Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

Dean Koontz

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

Bonnie McKee

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

Dick Dale

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Bobby Heenan

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Benjamin Franklin

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Aziz Ansari

Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us both.

Ben E. King

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

Ben Folds

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

Caprice Bourret

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

C. S. Lewis

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Dan Ariely

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

Dan Ariely

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

Clarice Lispector

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

B. C. Forbes

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Aldous Huxley

One of the great attractions of patriotism

Aldous Huxley

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

We want to inform students what cheating is, what plagiarism is, and what happens if you do it.

Diane Lane

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Banksy

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Abraham Polonsky

It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

Allan Sherman

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

Adrienne Rich

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Mary Tyler Moore

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease?'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing The horrors of peace.Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it -- Would marry it, too. If only they knew how to do it'Twere easy to do.They're working by night and by day On their problem, like moles. Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray, On their meddlesome souls! --Ro Amil

Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

There is an increasing problem on every campus. Five years ago, no one knew what electronic cheating was.

Albert Schweitzer

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Clint Bowyer

Who cares how you get caught? If you're cheating, if you're doing wrong, it doesn't matter what you're doing -- it's wrong.

Don Shula

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.