Lie Quotes
Never explain - - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.Elbert Hubbard
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.Robert J. McKain
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.Louise Bogan
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.Epictetus
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....Ian Shoales
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.Eric Hoffe
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
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.Karl Kraus
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.Scarface
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.J. Krishnamarti
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.Dr. Robert Schulle
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.Thomas Carlyle
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
True strength lies in gentleness.Irish Prove
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.Hillary Rodham Clinton
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.Coleman Cox
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.Albert Gallatin
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.D. A. Battista
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
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.William James
