No-Lake Picture

Anything that consoles is fake. - Iris Murdoch

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

How can I tell if humility is genuine or fake? - David J. Bobb

The righteous will flourish like the palm tree. - Psalms 92:12

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

If you hate where you are, move - you are not a tree. - Unknown

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

Man is a complex being: He makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. - Gil Stern

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. - William S. Burroughs

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon Stone

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

There's a lot of fake people in the world, but before you judge them, make sure you're not one of them. - Unknown

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins