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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE)
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't kn...
EVA MENDES
Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.
JOHN STOLTENBERG
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
YOGI BERRA
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the tru...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
YOGI BERRA
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
TERRY PRATCHETT
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will ...
ADLAI STEVENSON
Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
JOYCE RACHELLE
Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
RICHARD LIES
When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternati...
BEN SHAPIRO
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...
ZHUANGZI
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...
CHUANG TZU
Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.
TANYA MASSE
Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi...
C. JOYBELL C.
Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The old world told men merely about to live and to die.
Today men think about defeating death a...
TOBA BETA
People don't die, they continue to live. As long as you remember who they are when they're still liv...
RIKI JOU
I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never d...
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
A.W. TOZER
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
JOHN GRISHAM
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our ...
CHIEF JOSEPH
They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
CESAR ROMERO
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason ...
MARGARET MEAD
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI STEVENSON
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to.
BELLA DEPAULO
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Outrageous, his lies about my family
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps witho...
JOHN TILLOTSON
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps witho...
JOHN TILLOTSON
If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other t...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lie...
MADELEINE BRENT
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lie...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
It's a case about fear and extortion. It's a case about lies and fraud,
JEFFREY GOLDBERG
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.The Difference lies, as far as I can see,Not in the t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they...
KARL KRAUS
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they...
KARL KRAUS
Analogies are like lies.
ROMAN PAYNE
Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in k...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES
Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night a...
CHARLES SPURGEON
They say you can rap about anything except for JesusThat means guns, sex, lies, video tapesBut if I ...
KANYE WEST
A man who lies about beer makes enemies
STEPHEN KING
If they can't handle the truth I will let them panhandle for the lies.
ANDONI GARCIA
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be li...
KATE ATKINSON
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can&#...
ASHTON KUTCHER
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES
The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But neverthe...
ROBIN JARVIS
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
HILARY MANTEL
While boys are taught that the things that make them men--good men--are universally accepted ethical...
JESSICA VALENTI
People are so use to hearing and living with lies that when they hear the truth they call you crazy.
SEAN CROSBY
Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 Men expect that religion should cost them n...
JOHN TILLOTSON
That's another thing about lies: if you convince yourself they're true, they become true. A lie is a...
LEAH RAEDER
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. I...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Today, two young men have been charged with crimes they did not commit. This is a tragedy. For the t...
ROBERT EKSTRAND
People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
ORHAN PAMUK
So when your (new) eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love...
CONOR OBERST
A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.
AL DAVID
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make...
TIM ALLEN
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
TERRY MCAULIFFE
When they finally broke apart, Ygritte was flushed. "You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spit...
CHRIS CRUTCHER
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
AMBROSE BIERCE
What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.
ALAN BALL
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
BOYLE ROCHE
It is easy to die, anyone can die anywhere -- the difficulty lies in living.
VIKRANT PARSAI
so many people live and they only live and die; so many people live and they truly live and die
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but i...
KANYE WEST
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT
I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT
Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE
I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE
At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your hear...
BESS STREETER ALDRICH
When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fa...
ALEXANDRA POTTER
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER
Don't worry about their lies, you're too busy living the truth.
LUIS F. GOUVEIA
Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscu...
ANNETTE VAILLANCOURT
Of course they are a pack of lies.
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