Lie Quotes

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

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 year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.

Sir Winston Churchill

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ludwig Mises

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton, Prey

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mark Twain

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

French Prove

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

Napolean Hill

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Louis Celine

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

Homer, The Iliad

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Dorothe Deluzy

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Homer, The Odyssey

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61

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

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Knox