Lie Quotes

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roge

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

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

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunthe

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

Theophile Gautie

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

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

Truman Capote

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing

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

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Lisa Grossman

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

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

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Joseph Stalin

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

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

S. J. Perelman

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

Duchess de Abrantes

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that? s all you have.

James Dean