Lie Quotes

Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You.

Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981

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

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred E. Wiggam

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

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Emerson

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

La Rochefoucauld

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.

Cornelius Stam

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

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 had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

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

Nancy Reagan

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia