Lie Quotes

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

George Gordon Byron

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteu

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.

Confucius

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

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 have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

It will fluctuate.

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

Henry Christopher Bailey

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

C. A. Bartol

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7