Friend Quote by Mason Cooley

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Young people dislike and even fail to understand our slang; my gay students ask me what “tricking” means. It’s all old whore’s slang, of…

— Edmund White

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of…

— Thomas Hobbes

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike…

— Ambrose Bierce

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

— Wilson Mizner

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

— John Locke

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

— Wilson Mizner

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

— Simon Callow

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

— Johnny Depp

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

— Arnold J. Toynbee