Cheating Quotes

• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Integrity, May

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

  Sophocles

  Life, Failure, Winning

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 03, 2016

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• Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything.

  Mirah

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

  Greg Behrendt

  Betrayal, Betrayal Of Trust

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Truth

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Cheating is only cheating when you get caught.

  Jerry Lawler

  Caught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

  Ann Landers

  Wisdom, Cheater, Men

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• Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice.

  Anne Curtis

  Choices, Accidents

  "Fictional character: Rafi". "A Secret Affair", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Truth

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• The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, People

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

  Charles Davenport

  Clever, Cheat, Very Clever

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Funny Inspirational, Clever

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Love is a game in which one always cheats.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cute Love, Love Is, Games

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• No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Cheat, Ifs

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• It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patience, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

  Kim Cattrall

  Dog, Men, Balls

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Audio CD "Woody Allen: Stand-Up Comic 1964-1968", 1999.

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• I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

  Dave Winfield

  Cheat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Emptiness, Stealing, Empty

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 15 (1862)

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• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  B. C. Forbes

  Deception, Cheated On, Suspicion

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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Pain, Character

  Samuel Johnson (1752). “The Rambler”, p.79

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

  Texas Guinan

  Wife, Guy, Cards

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• Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Powerful, War

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Justice, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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