Lie Quotes

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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

Horace Mann

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

Samuel Butle

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

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Fran Lebowitz

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

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

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

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

William James

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

Don Delillo

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles De Gaulle

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

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

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Robert Francis Kennedy

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

George Jellinek

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Frank Outlaw

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe.

American Indian Prove

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Authenticity matters little, though - - Our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, February 25, 2000