The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying. — Richard Madeley Copy Share Image
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!"… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies… — Wang Yangming Copy Share Image
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image