Lie Quotes

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

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

Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawahar Lal Neheru

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warne

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquire

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

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

William R. Matthews

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

Evan Esa

If you tell a lie - - Tell a big one.

Joespeh Goebbels

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify