Famous Quotes & Sayings

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'.

John Dryden

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.

Kobe Bryant

When I was 14 or 15 he started cheating. He'd elbow me in the mouth, rip my lip open.

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.

Jane Austen

Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

Ava Gardner

I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

Ashley Jensen

There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in our face so it could get expressions from our faces that would eventually arrive on the gnomes. It almost felt like you were cheating at times because it was a wee bit too much fun. You were in that box on your own. Kelly [Asbury] was in Toronto, I was in LA, so I was just on my own. I thought: "I can't be getting paid for this as well!"

Jamie Carragher

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

Charles Caleb Colton

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

David Allan Coe

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

Bryan Adams

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

Barbara Mandrell

Married, but not to each other.

Carolyn Wells

The wages of sin is alimony.

Delphine de Girardin

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

William Shakespeare

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

Alain de Botton

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

Dolly Parton

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

Diego Maradona

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

Mike McCurry

They're up to political mischief and making a nuisance of themselves." ()

Spanish Proverb

Every one is wise when the mischief is done.

J. K. Rowling

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Cat Deeley

I could get up to a lot of mischief and no one would know it was me

William Camden

He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.