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Oliver Wendell Holmes

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Umberto Eco

Often attributed to Mark Twain; Quoted in Mark Twain, Autobiography, ch. 29, (1924), his exact words were: ???The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ???There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics???.???

Voltaire (Fran?ois-Marie Arouet)

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Mark Twain

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

William Shakespeare

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be wor

Aristotle

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Bosnian Proverb

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Confucius

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Gustave Flaubert

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Proverb

another version ends with what lies within us

William Shakespeare

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

SHAKS.: _Sonnet 50._

My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

Dr. Arbthnot

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Nick Diamos

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Elvis Presley

I'd rather go on hearing your lies than to go on living without you.

Yogi Berra

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Hietzsche

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Thomas Hardy

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

Cassia Lewis

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

Benjamin Franklin

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Romanian Proverb

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Laertius Diogenes

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Francis Bacon

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Epictetus

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Egyptian Proverb

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Kahlil Gibran

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

BURNS: _Death and Dr. Hornbook._

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

James Agee

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Martin Luther

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

American Indian Proverb

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Ann Landers

Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Austin O'Malley

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Henry Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

American Indian Proverb

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass

Chinese Proverb

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

H.L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

William Blake

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act iv., Sc. 5.

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

SHAKS.: _Jul. C?sar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

But yesterday the word of C?sar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

"There's lies, damn lies and statistics." Mark Twain

"There are lies, damn lies and statistics." -- Samuel Clemens

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Everybody lies about sex

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

"You'll see the look, you'll see the lies, you'll eat the lies."

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Most of our future lies ahead.

Within the problem lies the solution

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

True strength lies in gentleness.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

For at the end of history lies the undiscovered country.

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

It's an History is a set of lies agreed upon by the Victors.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

"..Truth above all. When a man lies he murders some part of the world!

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.