Lie Quotes

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

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

Henry Christopher Bailey

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Karin Ireland

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Gen. Peyton C. March

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one.

David A. Cronin

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Charles Dickens

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Author Unknown

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

James A. Autry

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

George Eliot

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine