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Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets
in the Democratic Party.
a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets
in the Democratic Party.
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they read more
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
[It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
[It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
