Quotes of Pretend - somelinesforyou

“ Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt. ”

- Charles Horace Mayo

“ Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ”

- Sacha Guitry

“ To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. ”

- Horne Tooke

“ Who can direct when all pretend to know? ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ”

- Christine Chubbuck

“ Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ”

- Ovid

“ You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. ”

- George Burns

“ Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ I was raised to pretend. ”

- Anne Heche

“ You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry B. Adams. ”

- Henry B. Adams

“ We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. ”

- Robbie Williams

“ We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring. ”

- Emily James Putnam

“ When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. ”

- Hermann Hesse

“ Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ”

- Alan Watts

“ To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. ”

- Moliere

“ The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ”

- Socrates
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