"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."

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"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Lie,

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Lie, Sickness, Words

"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

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

William Wyler, American Director

Lie, Trying

"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman

Lie, Lies, Reality

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Lie, Soul

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."

Jean Harlow, American Actress

Lie, Dogs, Fleas

"I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well."

Sandra Bullock, American Actress

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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

Wisdom

"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."

Humility

"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."

Science

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

"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."

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

"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

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

"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."

"I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well."

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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."

"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."

"I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."

"We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same."

"Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical."

"I heard the little bird say so."