Lie Quotes

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

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

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

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

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

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

Evelyn Waugh

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butle

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

German prove

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

John Ruskin

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

Evan Esa

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman