Lie Quotes

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U. S. Senators.

Will Rogers

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny the Elde

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Barbara Colorose

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warne

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

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

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

William R. Matthews

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Henry Louis Mencken

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad.

Dorothe Deluzy

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Sir Henry Wotton

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 probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.

Albert Einstein

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

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

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer, The Iliad

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

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

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly