Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.

Cards are war in disguise of a sport.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Seldom very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention saved the myth.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Patience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The stones themselves are thick with history and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise it's just you.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

Education n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.