Lie Quotes

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

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

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

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

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

Mark Twain

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Francis Bacon

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin

Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

Author Unknown

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel Cervantes

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad.

Dorothe Deluzy

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Maurice Chapelain

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Oliver Herford

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

E. M. Forster, Howards End