Lie Quotes

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

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton John Sheen

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

Blind belief is dangerous.

Kenyan Prove

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

James Thurbe

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Nora Ephron

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

James Ramsey

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Unknown

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

Phil Donahue

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

Edward Gibbon

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson