False Quotes

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How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so… — Michael Scott
Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the… — Tom Vanderbilt
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take… — John Angell James
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take… — Christian Nestell Bovee
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will… — Ahad Ha'am
A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be… — William Wordsworth
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of… — Hunter S. Thompson
I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one… — Robert Musil
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead.… — E E Cummings
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous… — H.G. Wells
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. — Jeffrey Shallit
The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards… — Bill Vaughan
Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American… — Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It… — Saul Bellow
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a… — George Steiner
Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False… — Billy Bob Thornton

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