If you want to dance the dance then you better learn the steps, the world has enough pretenders. If you want to practice sex then you better find a partner, and to love you must surrender. - Carroll Bryant
I realize no matter how smart you are, you’ll end up trusting people and get hurt. This world is full of pretenders and you’ll never know. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game - Lucas Sterk
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. - Walter Lippmann