Lie Quotes
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
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.Author Unknown
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.Bertrand Russell
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.Charles De Gaulle
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
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
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.Mary Catherine Bateson
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.Henry Ward Beeche
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.Author Unknown
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.Woody Allen
Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.The Clown Prince of Darkness
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.Author Unknown
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.Ronald Reagan
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.H. L. Mencken
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.Duchess de Abrantes
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.Benjamin Franklin
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.Joyce Strange
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.Peter Ustinov
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.Thomas a Kempis
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
