Lie Quotes

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

James Ramsey

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

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

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles De Gaulle

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

William Shakespeare

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing

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

George Santayana

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

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad.

Dorothe Deluzy

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

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

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.

Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Valery

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

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

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

Elbert Hubbard

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle