Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

When you're not authentic to yourself, you're lying. You're going to get found out and you're going to slip up.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

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