A Quote by B. C. Forbes
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.
Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.
How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.
There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.
Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.
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