Lie Quotes

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Anatole France

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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]

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Rene Descartes

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Albert Gallatin

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizscke

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Jacob Neusne

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Norman R. Augustine

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Thomas H. Huxley

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Ralph Waldo Emerson