The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind…

“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.”

— Orhan Pamuk

We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to…

— Timothy Keller

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

— Barbara Mertz

“A counterfeit can never be a substitute for the real thing”

— Sipho Bayeto

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and…

— Bill Johnson

“the Secret Service trains its agents to identify counterfeit bills by having them handle every possible kind of real REAL bill. Old ones. New…

— José N. Harris

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,…

— John Clare

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do…

— Moliere

“The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.”

— St. Clair McKelway

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

— Aleister Crowley

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

— Mark Twain

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and…

— C. S. Forester

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

— James Gibbons

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

— Bill Johnson

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

— Berl Katznelson