Lie Quotes

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - It saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

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

Charles De Gaulle

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Russian prove

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luthe

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

Author Unknown

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

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

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Anatole France

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Ralph Kine

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

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

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

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

Evan Esa

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake