Lie Quotes

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Stephen A. Brennan

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

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

Bertrand Russell

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

Sir V Pritchett

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.

Francis Quarles

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

M. C. Esche

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Prove

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

Samuel Butle

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Woody Allen

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michel de Montaigne

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle