Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adrienne Rich

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

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.

Robert Graves

No escape, / No such thing; to dream of new dimensions, / Cheating checkmate by painting the king's robe / So that he slides like a queen.

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,

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.

C. S. Lewis

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

Al Goldstein

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Al Goldstein

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Charles Davenport

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Channing Tatum

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

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.

Conan O'Brien

It's rumored that Arnold Schwarzenegger's son is cheating on his girlfriend Miley Cyrus. After hearing about it Arnold said, 'That's my boy.'

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.

Daniel Cudmore

I think it's easy to forget just how massive the muscles in the legs are, and how much testosterone is released in your body when you make sure you work your legs hard. Some people's bodies just take a long time to grow, and if you're naturally thin there's no cheating. It takes time. Your body will only grow muscle at a certain rate for your genetics, so take your time and keep at it.

Daniel Defoe

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Dale Murphy

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Dan Harris

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

Anatole France

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Anne Grant

Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

Ambrose Bierce

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Ambrose Bierce

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

Ambrose Bierce

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.