Lie Quotes

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Josh Billings

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

John F. Kennedy

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Author Unknown

Hello, he lied.

Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

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

Rudyard Kipling

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Adolf Hitle

The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

Jefferson Davis

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Russian prove

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

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

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Frank Herbert

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

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

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Ralph Kine

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

Anatole France

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcot

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butle

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black