Lie Quotes

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel Cervantes

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

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 - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Nancy Reagan

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

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 power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun - Tzu

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beeche

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

Assyrian Prove

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn