Cheat

Famous quotes containing the word cheat:

“Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.”
—Ralph J. Cudworth (1617–1688)

“If a man cheats the land, the land will cheat his belly.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)