Lie Quotes

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U. S. senators.

Will Rogers

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.

Emil Wiechert

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

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

Evan Esa

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

Anatole France

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

Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Arthur Hays Sulzberge

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Crow, The

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Henry Christopher Bailey

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

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

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

Rudyard Kipling

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

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

H. L. Mencken

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Gloria Steinem

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

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

Samuel Butle

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

Anatole France

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Woody Allen

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

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence