Lying Quotes

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.

The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

I lie! I cheat! I steal!

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.