Lie Quotes

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

Barbara Mikkelson

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Thomas H. Huxley

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Jay Leno

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

E. M. Forster, Howards End

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warne

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

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

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

C. S. Lewis

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism".

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

Cassia Lewis

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Unknown

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

George Jellinek

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

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

Woody Allen