Larry Adams "Fraud In Other Quotes"

Fraud In Other Quotes
Words of Wisdom, Experience, and Opinion

Newfound Quotes

"The key ingredient in learning the truth is to ask the right questions."
"You can't solve a problem until you can measure it."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York State. Excerpt from Tim Russert, "Big Russ and Me," Miramax Books, New York, 2004, page 266.

"Bribes and kickbacks to governmental officials are deductible unless the individual has been convicted of making the bribe or has entered a plea of not guilty or nolo contendere."
Excerpt from the IRS Official Taxpayers' Guide.
"The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said Calendar," Workman Publishing, page April 15, 2004.

"Talk about wrong priorities. We live in a country that has a National Spelling Bee. We actually give prizes for spelling! But when's the last time you heard about a thinking bee? Or a reasoning bee? Maybe an ethics bee? Never."
Comedian George Carlin, "2006 George Carlin Day-to-Day Calendar," Andrews McMeel Publishing, page May 18, 2006.

"I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see."
Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier," written in 1926 by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Doyle Photo: Corbis, www.crimelibrary.com/
gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/
sherlock_holmes/1.html

"You can lead a jury to the truth, but you can't make them believe it."
Herbert Leon MacDonell, "The Evidence Never Lies: The Casebook of a Modern Sherlock Holmes," Henry Holt, 1984.

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert."
Mike Duxbury.

"I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who."
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), British writer, in The Elephant's Child in "Just So Stories," 1902, http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/
words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/
JustSoStories/chap5_elephantchild.html

"What is not looked for will not be found!"
William J. Bodziak, "Footwear Impression Evidence."

"All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support."
Richard Whately

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."
Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer, 1918 - 1990.

"Secrecy is a badge of fraud."
Sir John Chadwick, born 1941, British judge.

"The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casualties could enable them to pay; till after having supported their appearance a while by tumultuary magnificence of boundless traffic, they sink at once, and drag down into poverty those whom their equipages had induced to trust them."
Samuel Johnson, English author, "Rambler #189," January 7, 1752.

Quote Archive

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist, 1901 - 1978.
Photo: Anthony di Gesu, www.sandiegohistory.org/digesu/digesu3.htm

"Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie."
Jennifer Chiaverini, The Sugar Camp Quilt, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005, page 20.

On negotiations: "A good compromise leaves everyone angry."
Christopher Paolini, Eldest, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005, page 314.

"The truth is out there."
FBI Agent Fox Mulder

"The truth is out there - but so are the lies."
FBI Agent Dana Sculley, "The X-Files," television series 1993 - 2002.

"Gee, there is something wrong with just about everything, isn't there, Dad?"
"Beaver" (Theodore Cleaver)

"Just about, Beav!"
Dad (Ward Cleaver), "Leave It To Beaver," television series 1957 - 1963.

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. You can enlighten the world too. Share your knowledge and wisdom with the people around you."
Father James Keller, amended by Larry Adams

"There's no sense in tempting honest people. [Lock it up.]"
Larry Ralston, father of author Aron Ralston, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Atria Books, New York, 2004, page 9. An extraordinary true story of mountaineering, courage, and survival.

"Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side."
Aesop, Greek author of Aesop's Fables, 620 B.C. - 560 B.C.

"Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is."
Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister, and Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, 1874 - 1965.

"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."
Dr. Samuel Johnson, English author and lexicographer, 1709 - 1784.

"With a gentleman, I am always a gentleman and a half; and with a fraud, I try to be a fraud and a half."
Sir Francis Bacon, Renaissance author and the father of deductive reasoning, 1561 - 1626.

"The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not."
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and professor, born 1908 in Canada.
Photo: http://home.business.utah.edu/fincmb/galb.html

"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
Alan Greenspan, American economist and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States, born 1926.

"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed, even if they speak the truth."
Phaedrus, Roman poet, 15 B.C. - 50 A.D.

"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny."
Reverend Frederick W. Robertson, 1816 - 1853.

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
Sophocles, Greek poet, 496 B.C. - 406 B.C.

"Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump."
W. C. Fields, American actor and comedian, 1880 - 1946, in "Poppy," a 1923 Broadway musical and 1936 film

“You can’t cheat an honest man. He has to have larceny in his heart in the first place.”
W. C. Fields in the 1939 movie he wrote, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man"

“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
W. C. Fields

"When one elf meets another, they stop and touch two fingers to their lips to indicate that we shall never distort the truth during our conversation."
Christopher Paolini, Eldest, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005, pages 161 and 162.

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