Lie Quotes

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, (attributed)

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

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Fran Lebowitz

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butle

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

George Gordon Byron

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles De Gaulle

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

John Owen

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Walter Bagehot

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

I believe the destiny of your generation - And your nation - Is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

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

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.

Meryl Streep

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Bosnian Prove