Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But it's usually too battered with rules to be heard and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive constructive optimistic kind.

If there is no hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Life in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense a fraud a lie and the workers want no lying.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.