Lie Quotes

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...

Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)

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

George John Whyte - Melville

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953

The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

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

H. L. Mencken

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.

Sir Winston Churchill

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

William A. Ward

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

It will fluctuate.

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

William Faulkne

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

Mick Lloyd Kerman

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

Cassia Lewis

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

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

Anatole France

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 3 scene 4

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolph Hitle

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

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

Susan Jeffers

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding