Lie Quotes

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Henry Christopher Bailey

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Von Weizsacke

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Phil Donahue

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Josh Billings

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warne

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.

American Indian Prove

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

If you tell a lie - - Tell a big one.

Joespeh Goebbels

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

C. A. Bartol

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

Duchess de Abrantes

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.

William Shakespeare

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

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

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball