Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945