Lie Quotes

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

George Carlin

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Lisa Grossman

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Maurice Chapelain

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Unknown

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

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

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Maya Angelou

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

The Clown Prince of Darkness

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Irving Layton

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

Evelyn Waugh

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)

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have - Nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

It will fluctuate.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beeche