Reactor • Weekend
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that hackers have threatened to expose the identities of thousands of users at the adultery website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair” — a breach that “could be disastrous for one whose business model is based on complete confidentially.”
Weekend Words: Cheat
Georges de la Tour, “Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds” (1635), oil on canvas, 106 x 146 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris (Image via Web Gallery of Art)
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that hackers have threatened to expose the identities of thousands of users at the adultery website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair” — a breach that “could be disastrous for one whose business model is based on complete confidentially.”
Children are the most desirable opponents at Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
—Fran Lebowitz
Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee,
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief,
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear,
And softly through the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf!
—Emily Dickinson, “Indian Summer, XXVII”
Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
― David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
—John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
—Jane Smiley
Does anyone who will listen up
To our victories and dumb defeats
Knows they all take you to the cleaners
If you come between the cheats.
—Amy Winehouse, “Between the Cheats”
Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between periods of fighting.
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
A face peered. All the grey night
In chaos of vacancy shone;
Nought but vast Sorrow was there–
The sweet cheat gone.
—Walter de la Mare, “The Ghost”
You can’t cheat an honest man; never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump.
—W. C. Fields, You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
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