Trick

Famous quotes containing the word trick:

“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

““It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious”Mthat the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)