Lie Quotes

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Leo Rosten

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather, My Antonia

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

Mick Lloyd Kerman

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.

American Indian Prove

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Miguel de Cervantes

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

Hunter S. Thompson

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

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

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky