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| All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. | | William James | |
| Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. | | Fran Lebowitz | |
| 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 | |
| Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
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| I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go." | | Stephen Wright | |
| I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian | | Samuel Johnson | |
| 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 | |
| I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife | | Woody Allen | |
| If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. | | Ann Landers | |
| In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. | | Robert Byrne | |
| It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four | | Tom Lehrer | |
| 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. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. | | Eric Hoffer | |
