Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Rumi

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

Tony Hoare

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

Steve Albini

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Stanley Baldwin

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Donald Trump

If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen.

Albert Einstein

I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

T. D. Jakes

I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar!

Sabrina Carpenter

Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is Pretty Little Liars. It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows but I just don't have time!

Tina Fey

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

Sam Harris

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Sallust

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Vernor Vinge

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

Veronica Roth

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Charles Churchill

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play.

Janet Reno

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit

Baltasar Gracian

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Anthony Trollope

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Demi Moore

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'