Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Rodney Dangerfield

I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.

Warren Beatty

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

Wayne Dyer

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

William Blake

Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Twyla Tharp

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

Viggo Mortensen

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Jean Genet

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have always had innovators and entrepreneurs who built real companies and create real value, but we should not and we will not respect those who get rich by cheating everybody else.

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.

Howell Raines

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

William Shakespeare

For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

Frederik Pohl

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

Franz Kafka

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Franz Kafka

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Eric Williams

They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!

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.

Henry Mayhew

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

Tom Renney

It's cheating. It's trying to make the 60-foot pass and not collaborating on anything that has to be done.

It's been successfully cheating its way with its nuclear program for something like 20 years, so I think a lot of people will say, 'lets not jump on this and let's not be too hasty'.

It wasn't that we put extra guys on him or did anything different. The corners played a sound game; they weren't cheating up or anything. The safeties were over the top. The defensive line put on good pressure. That's why it looked like we were all over the place: Everyone was where they should be.

It was definitively proven that these very companies had knowingly been cheating on oil for years, if not decades. To ignore the likelihood that the same thing is happening on the gas side is absurd.

It's better to lose with honesty and dignity than win by cheating.

It's not the first time in the history of OPEC that we've had problems with cutbacks, and when the price goes up, then the cheating starts.

James E. Faust

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.