Lie Quotes

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

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

Sophocles

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Rene Descartes

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. While we talk, hostile time flies away.

Horace

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Woody Allen

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Authenticity matters little, though - - Our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, February 25, 2000

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bern Williams

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

George Bernard Shaw

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

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

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

Theophile Gautie

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

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson