Lie Quotes

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Walter Bagehot

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizscke

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer, The Odyssey

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

Henry Louis Mencken

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.

Joyce Grenfell

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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 love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

D. A. Battista

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

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

Mark Twain

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this: dream a great dream.

John Alan Appleman