Lie Quotes

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

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

Josh Billings

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

Felix Cohen

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

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

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben - Gurion

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - - A test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

T. S. Eliot

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

John Owen