Lie Quotes

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.

Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, (attributed)

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

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

Ronald Reagan

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

Shakespeare.

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

George Gordon Byron

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer, The Iliad

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann von Goethe

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawahar Lal Neheru

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman - Like habits, supplies their demands.

Oscar Wilde

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling