Day: November 13, 2010

Lies Quotes

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. – Aristotle

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. – Steven Soderbergh

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. – B. Traven

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. – Author Unknown

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it’s boots on. – James Watt

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. – Zohar

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. – Clare Booth Luce

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

Please don’t lie to me, unless you’re absolutely sure I’ll never find out the truth. – Ashleigh Brilliant

He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. – Arabian Proverb

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. – Senegalese Proverb

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. – Aleister Crowley

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. – Friedrich Nietzsche

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. – H. L. Mencken

It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Lenin

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Mark Twain

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. – Billy Boy Franklin

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. – Mark Twain

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. – Saki

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. – Sophocles

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. – Latin Proverb

That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. – Alexander Haig

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato

A liar should have a good memory. – Quintilian

Liars need to have good memories. – Algernon Sidney

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution…how we can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness” – Anne Frank

The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. – Norman Vincent Peale

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. – Helen Keller

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. – Mother Teresa

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can
– John Wesley

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer

One of things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. – Dick Gregory

Be the change you want to see in the world. – Gandhi

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. – Lady Bird Johnson

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. – Unknown

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

To the world, you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just might be the world. – Unknown

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You really can change the world if you care enough. – Marion Wright Edelman

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. – Ray Lyman Wilbur

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pine

Overnight Success

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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone, Co-Founder, Twitter

Cool Quotes

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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” –Alfred Adler

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” –Thomas Jefferson

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” –Dr. Seuss

“Life is just a bowl of cherries.” –Anonymous

“Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.” -Queen Christina of Sweden

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” –Anais Nin

“Life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.” –Marcus Aurelius

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” –Soren Kierkegaard

“A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.” –Guy De Maupassant

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” –Anonymous

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every one lives by selling something.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.