Lie Quotes

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Laertius Diogenes

A thief believes everybody steals.

E. W. Howe

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

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

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

William R. Matthews

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.

Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

C. S. Lewis

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

Never explain - - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan