Lie Quotes

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

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

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

George Bernard Shaw

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest 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 Alcot

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.

Sir Winston Churchill

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

James Ramsey

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

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

Frank Deford

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Valery

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean - Paul Sartre