"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."

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"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."

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Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

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Henry Wotton, English Author

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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer

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Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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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."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."

Roland Barthes, French Critic

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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."

"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."

"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country."

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

"Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?"

"Weaklings must lie."

"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."

"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."

Explore more quotes by Max Eastman

"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."

"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

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