Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Torre

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

James P. Hogan

The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

Emile M. Cioran

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Emily Giffin

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

Elliott Smith

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Napoleon Hill

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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.

Malcolm X

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Sidney Sheldon

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

John Newcombe

It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

Tom Daschle

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

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

Texas Guinan

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

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.

James Cook

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

Henry Giroux

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

Henry Hazlitt

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

John Ralston Saul

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.

Jon Hamm

I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life

Johnny Ramone

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

Luc de Clapiers

Commerce is the school of cheating.

Nora Ephron

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

Dave Goldberg

You've got to give people a disincentive to cheat.

Andrew Ference

And that's 20 with guys keying on him. It didn't take the league long to figure out that . . . we like to get him shooting the puck. To put that many in the net with guys cheating out on you is very impressive.

Philip James Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Maureen Johnson

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

John Evelyn

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

Lou Brock

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

John Fogerty

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

Lindsey Graham

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

Leo Tolstoy

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.