All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, read more

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American read more

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.