People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.

Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

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