"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Secrecy

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Man, Memory

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Lie, Sin, Tools

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Lie, Scandal

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Lie, Lies

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

Hal Holbrook, American Actor

Lie, Causes, Feeling, Hate

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Injury, Lying

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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."

Wisdom

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

Society

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

Authority

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Explore more quotes by Norman Douglas

"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."

"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."