False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. — Dan Aykroyd
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a… — Sai Baba
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,… — Russell Baker
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads,… — Alan Ball
I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to… — Roseanne Barr
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Ethel Barrymore
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. — Saul Bellow
It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more… — John Belushi
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also… — Niels Bohr
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary… — Niels Bohr
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
False expectations take away joy. — Sandra Bullock
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. — Richard Burton
There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would… — Nicolas Cage
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was… — Jimmy Carter
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good,… — Richard Cecil

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