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Quotes About Perception

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go."
~ Stephen Wright
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He's playing you because you're the only one who doesn't know.
~ Unknown
The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame
~ Chinese Proverbs
So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of Top 10 hated foods
~ Julia Reed
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes - but it's just like chicken, only tenderer. Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.
~ Alistair Cooke
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
~ Joan Rivers
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself
~ Unknown
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
~ Titus Lucretius Carus
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
~ Neil Gaiman
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
~ Doug Larson
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
~ Unknown
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it
~ Samuel Johnson
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
~ Edwin Way Teale
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
~ Stanley Milgram
I used to believe in freedom of speech until I had to pay my first phone bill.
~ Unknown
People fear what they don't understand: Change, Death, 4th grade math word problems. . .
~ Unknown
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
~ Tina Fey
The world is full of idiots that is the best way to explain intelligence.
~ Unknown
They say that life is too short, I just wonder who took the measurements.
~ Unknown
The awkward moment when you're just being nice and the person thinks you're flirting with them.
~ Unknown
All sincere boys fall in love with stupid girls, all sincere girls fall in love with stupid boys, I am neither stupid nor sincere, that's why I am 'SINGLE'.
~ Unknown