Lie Quotes
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.Marcel Proust
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
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.Alfred E. Wiggam
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are.Martin Luthe
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.Lenin
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.Washington Irving
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.Alan J. Perlis
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.Johann von Goethe
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
A thief believes everybody steals.E. W. Howe
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.Mark B. Cohen
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
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".
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles, Creusa
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.Louis Celine
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!Alfred A. Montapert
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.Emil Wiechert
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
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
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.Miguel Cervantes
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...G. K. Chesterton
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
