Lie Quotes

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

H. L. Mencken

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

C. A. Bartol

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Matthew Arnold

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

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

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

Nancy Reagan

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Henri Frdric Amiel

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

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!

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

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

Sir V Pritchett

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

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

W. L. George

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Frank Deford

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

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

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle, unknown