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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
Everybody wants financial security for their family, and when a player says otherwise, he's lying.
A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.
We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.