lie quotes

“Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.”

— Woody Allen

“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”

— Woody Allen

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ”

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”

“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

— Marie Curie

“Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!”

— Robert Burns

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

— Fidel Castro

“The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

— Fidel Castro

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”

“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.”

— Corliss Lamont

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”

— Agatha Christie

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

“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

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

— Jane Austen

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

— Thomas Jefferson

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