Lie Quotes

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Oliver Herford

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Woody Allen

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sophocles, Ajax

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

William Shakespeare

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.

Sun - Tzu

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

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

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Stephen Butler Leacock

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts