Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Henry Mayhew

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Jeanette Winterson

Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

Jerry Springer

If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.

Jeri Ryan

Cheating is often more efficient.

Jerry Lawler

Cheating is only cheating when you get caught.

Howell Raines

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

George Eliot

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Ezra Taft Benson

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Jerry Saltz

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

Adam Grant

To be honest, sometimes a rock worm feels like cheating because it's fishing a worm. It is a fantastic pattern that I've done really well on this winter.

Michael Bamberger

To me, cheating implies intent. I think she was just careless. I feel strongly I did the right thing.

If we don't want the companies to cheat on us, we shouldn't be cheating on them.

Nora Ephron

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

Rand Paul

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

Sidney Sheldon

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Melissa Bank

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

Michael Zaslow

I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

Marla Maples

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Mason Cooley

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

Theodore Sturgeon

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

Texas Guinan

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Paul Scofield

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Paul Merton

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

Tom Daschle

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

P. J. O'Rourke

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

Ovid

Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

I love working out but I really have more enjoyment cheating on my husband with other married men.

Napoleon Hill

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

If you're cheating, the less people know about it, the better. You're not going to tell your driver. At least I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell anybody.