A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it. — Edwin W. Rice Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm… — Don King Copy Share Image
A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and… — Ralph Moody Copy Share Image
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling… — David Shore Copy Share Image
