Lie Quotes
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.Arthur Calwell
If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.Joseph Addison
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.Mark Twain
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....Ian Shoales
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.Jacques Bossuet
A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.Albert Camus
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.Friedrich Nietzsche
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.Jameson Green
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.Rainer Maria Rilke
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.Albert Einstein
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.Bernard Berenson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.Samuel Johnson
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.Montesquieu
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.M. C. Esche
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.Virgil, Aeneid
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.Ellen G. White
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.Mae West
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.Susan Partnow
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.Anatole France
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.Adam Smith
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
