PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. — Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres Copy Share Image
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
