Lie Quotes
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.Stanislaw J. Lec
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.Napolean Hill
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.Meryl Streep
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.George Eliot
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.Homer, The Iliad
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.Margot Asquith
By their own follies they perished, the fools.Homer, The Odyssey
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.Oscar Levant
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.Lord Salisbury
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.H. L. Mencken
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.Horace Mann
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.Voltaire
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.William S. Burroughs
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.William James
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.Henri de Lubac
Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.Josh Billings
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.James Harvey Robinson
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.Dick Gregory
