Quotes About Misleading

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."

They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.

Framed to make women false.

Therefore, beware of such misleading, shameful, and deceptive prattle, which represents Christ solely as a Teacher of works, as though He had taught and showed us nothing but proper conduct and behavior. In that capacity He could not be called the Way; then He would be no more than a cross or a votive picture on the wayside. This indeed directs the wayfarer correctly, but it itself does not bear him along.

Brightmist. It's one of the poorest quarters. Don't let the name fool you. Nothing bright about it. Garvin was wrong. There was at least one bright thing about it. -Jase

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos.

advertising their bad diets with the most ill-advised attire.

I soon discovered the Hat and Feathers was a misleading name. In it there was no hat, and absolutely no feathers. There were just heavily inebriated people with red faces laughing at their own jokes. This, I soon discovered, was a typical pub. The 'pub' was an invention of humans living in England, designed as compensation for the fact that they were humans living in England. I rather liked the place.

Finding one's way through the Hedge even in a familar area, is perilous. The Hedge does not remain constant, and paths become overgrown, impassable, or simply misleading if left untended and untrod for too long.

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.

some of them have already heard the word of God and then, after having understood it, they knowingly perverted it? 76

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

Leanwashing is the term used to describe companies that try to position themselves as helping to solve the obesity crisis when, instead, they're directly contributing to it.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest forced] PepsiCo to change the labeling of its Tropicana Peach Papaya Juice to reflect ... that it has neither peaches nor papaya and is not a juice.

Some candy bars had more protein than many cereals. [Jean] Mayer dubbed them "sugar-coated vitamin pills" and wrote, "I contend that these cereals containing over 50% sugar should be labeled imitation cereal or cereal confections, and they should be sold in the candy section rather than in the cereal section.

The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Things aren't always what they seem, are they?