Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American read more

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of read more

So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly read more

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

It is fraud to conceal fraud

It is fraud to conceal fraud

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in read more

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.