quotes and sayings about lies

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. ~Ilie Nastase



Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets



Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author Unknown



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~Sydney J. Harris



Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ~Samuel Johnson



You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb



Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin



History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate



What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens



Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



And I irritably reflected that you can't take a step from the equator to the poles without running into that suspicious face, those rapacious eyes, those clawlike hands and that vile mouth, which goes breathing the frightful verses of the Bible, in an odor of stale gin, over the charming divinities and adorable myths of naive religions. ~"The Garden," Chapter 5



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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle



There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau



A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ~John Frederick Boyes



The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! ~Richard Feynman



By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts