Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
It does hurt at times when the end result is not in your favor despite all the hard work you put in,… — Varun Sandesh Copy Share Image
This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and… — Manti Te'o Copy Share Image
You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self,… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old… — Friedrich Muller Copy Share Image
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You are loved. You are valuable. You are crafted with beauty and purpose. I treasure you and this world needs you. There… — Curt Mega Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within. — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.” — Sean Patrick Brennan Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image