“ The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 3.3K
“ You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat. But to lie there — that's a disgrace. ”
- E. V. Cooke- Copy
- 499
“ My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables? ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 858
“ If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ”
- John Hersey- Copy
- 198
“ I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood — we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ”
- Dick Houser- Copy
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“ Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 2.2K
“ He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. ”
- Robert M. Hutchins- Copy
- 1.2K
“ And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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