Lie Quotes

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.

Andr Gide

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

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

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Oscar Wilde

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Edgar Watson Howe

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Maya Angelou

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Prove

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

Evan Esa

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Norman R. Augustine

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

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

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

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

Samual Rutherford

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy