Lie Quotes
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.Homer, The Odyssey
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.Mary Catherine Bateson
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
If you tell a lie - - Tell a big one.Joespeh Goebbels
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.Adolph Hitle
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.Joyce Grenfell
The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.E. M. Forster, Howards End
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
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.Henry David Thoreau
Authenticity matters little, though - - Our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, February 25, 2000
Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.William Shakespeare
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.Havelock Ellis
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.James Truslow Adams
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.James Baldwin
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell
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
Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.Stephen A. Brennan
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.William Occam
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.Alfred E. Wiggam
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.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
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
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
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.Garrison Keillo
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.Ronald Reagan
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.George Santayana
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.Michel de Montaigne
What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.Dominique de Menil
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.Swedish Prove
