Lie
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.
I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?' I'll jot the idea down. Then I'm like, 'All right, so now that it's a zoo, that penguin's loose', or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night'.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
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