Tricks Quotes

• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Political, Deception

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• Little by little does the trick.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Doe

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.56, Pelekanos Books

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• Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

  Red Smith

  Dying, Bigs, Deals

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

  Erica Jong

  Love, Pain, Joy

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Strength, Best Husband

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• Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

  Gordon Livingston

  Two, Knowing, Important

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press

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• Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Luck, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perspective, Perception, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.21, Random House

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• The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

  Richard Carlson

  Grateful, Mood, Lows

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

  Max Eastman

  Land, Play, Goal

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Fear, Fresh Start, Emotion

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Inspiration

  "Small and Simple Things". Book by Marjorie Pay Hinckley, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.

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• You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

  William Camden

  Dog, Fun, Empty Vessels

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• There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Children, Halloween

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• Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

  William Congreve

  Hands, Understanding, Admiration

  1695 Valentine. Love for Love, act 4, sc.21.

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• Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?

  Bo Derek

  Taken, Wonderful, Wild Ride

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• You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dogma, Wit, Teach

  Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.

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• Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Yield

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• No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Important, I Love You

  "Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins" by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (p. 284), 1956.

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• You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

  Eleanor Brown

  Believe, May, Littles

  Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.13, Penguin

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• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.

  John le Carre

  Believe, Two, America

  2003 In Time, 27 Jan.

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• The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Life Is, Hindsight

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