Lie Quotes

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

Men generally believe what they wish.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warne

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michel de Montaigne

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

We have to believe in free will. We? ve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982)

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Author Unknown

It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.

Unknown

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

Susan Partnow

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia