You May Also Like / View all maxioms
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
[Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non read more
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
[Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin
que tous les autres.]
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
read more
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the read more
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That read more
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us read more
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
Every crowd has a silver lining.