A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

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

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

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

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

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

Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.

The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.