Lie Quotes

D. h. lawrence - the mind can assert anything and pretend it has...
Lyman beeche - never chase a lie. let it alone, and it will run...
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Unknown
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
Author Unknown
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Harriet Martineau
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
Romanian Prove
Henry fielding - love: a word properly applied to our delight in...
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - - And hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Dominique de Menil
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al - Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.
Osama Bin Laden, BBC
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Virginia
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
Tom Robbins
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.
Author Unknown
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.
Cassia Lewis
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.
Rosalind Sussman Yalow
I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.
Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohen
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
David Ben - Gurion
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
Jonathan Berry
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston