Sayings about Tricks
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. ~ Traditional Proverb
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. ~ Traditional Proverb
The anger of a woman is mighty and the devil’s trickery weak. ~ Tunisian Proverbs
Not to use trickery is also trickery. ~ Arabian Proverb
A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards. ~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
Quotations about Tricks
A Trick : a crafty procedure or practice meant to deceive or defraud. ~ Source
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid. ~ Doris Lessing
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn’t bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would. ~ Prince
Little by little does the trick. ~ Aesop
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being alone. ~ Wendy Wasserstein
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money. ~ Author Unknown
I want men to admire me, but that’s a trick you learn at school–a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there’s something to admire. ~ Graham Green
When in doubt, win the trick. ~ Edmund Hoyle
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~ Joseph Conrad
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. ~ Craig Brown
Art doesn’t just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. ~ Nicholas Meyer
There just isn’t any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. ~ Joel Rosenberg
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. ~ Humphrey Carpenter
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. ~ Storm Jameson
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low. ~ Richard Carlson
I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. ~ Art Garfunkel
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks. ~ Colm Keaveney
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ~ Ivan Goncharov
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. ~ Jacob Riis
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ~ Angela Carter
Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. ~ Christopher Paolini
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ~ Charles Dickens
The trick is growing up without growing old. ~ Casey Stengel
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage. ~ Rober Woodruff Anderson
Don’t just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ~ James Bennis
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman
Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high. ~ Greg Norman
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks. ~ Michel Onfray
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. ~ Sarah MacLean
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
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest. ~ Benjamin Franklin
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. ~ David Hare
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~ Elwyn Brooks White
The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come. ~ Lee Iacocca
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil. ~ Jean Anouilh
The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there’s nothing more to give. ~ Sparky Anderson
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ~ Vernon Law
The real trick is to make the moves in your head first, as a way of testing them out. ~ Juliene Berk