Lie Quotes

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Dinah Mulock Craik

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Benjamin Franklin

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

Author Unknown

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

Thomas H. Huxley

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Dan Quayle, 8/11/89

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Sir Henry Wotton

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose of Milan

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roge

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

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer, The Iliad

Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

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

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.

Louisa May Alcott

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

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

C. A. Bartol

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

Edward Gibbon

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell