Lie Quotes
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.Montesquieu
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri Frdric Amiel
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.Sophocles, Ajax
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.D. A. Battista
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You.Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Benjamin Franklin
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.Benjamin Franklin
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.Josh Billings
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs
If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.Barbara Colorose
Unless you believe, you will not understand.Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.Louise Erdrich
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.Edmund Burke
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.Dwight D Eisenhowe
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.Dale Carnegie
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.Ron Nesen
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.La Rochefoucauld
A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.Albert Camus
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.Bertrand Russell
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.William Shakespeare
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.Susan Partnow
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
