It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

To be intimate with a married man when my own father cheated on my mother is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage I think he was there.

Men's indignation it seems is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal the second like being compelled by a superior.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited that blights their life.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.