False Quotes
1931 quotes by 1326 authors
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You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when you…
— Larry David
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A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy.…
— Chaka Khan
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Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on…
— Ron Fournier
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If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
— Marie de France
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If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is…
— Pope Francis
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of…
— Benjamin Franklin
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of…
— Martha Gellhorn
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally…
— Edward Gibbon
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
— Khalil Gibran
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I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that…
— Joan Collins
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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
— Mason Cooley
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real,…
— Salvador Dali
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little…
— Charles Darwin
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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security.…
— Peter DeFazio
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his…
— Guy Debord
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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies -…
— Alan Dershowitz
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur…
— Frederick Douglass
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