“...he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled.”

“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

“I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”

“When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”

“A hand full of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”