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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. — Benjamin Franklin

We are betrayed by what is false within — George Meredith

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy. — Douglas Massey

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. — Thomas Love Peacock

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country. — Pat Buchanan

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore

We entered an era of false alarms. — Sara Novic

Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress? — Jeremy Hawthorn

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz

A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances. — Nadia Hashimi

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. — C.S. Lewis

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice. — Robert Kiyosaki

Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine — Fanny Howe

Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep. — Rebecca McNutt

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? — Arthur Miller

False hope has more potential of hurting you than not having any hope at all. — Nina Levine

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. — George Soros

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears. — Michael Gruber

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

Get me a real chair — Jennifer A. Nielsen

False humility is more insulting than open pride! — Brandon Mull

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life. — Shannon L. Alder

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. — Paul Dirac

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. — John Stuart Mill

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. — J.C. Ryle

There is more hope for an opinion than for a false fact. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are male escorts that look like you? I thought all those commercials were false advertisement. — Anonymous

A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy — Francis Bacon

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. — Henry Miller

Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false. — Bryant McGill

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ... — Barbara Mertz

Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope. — Lemony Snicket

A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor. — Vladimir Nabokov

A part of me so desperately wanted to believe it was possible, but the other part of me knew that holding on to false hope can be a dangerous thing. — Autumn Doughton

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

4. If you push yourself hard in the direction of freedom, compassion, and excellence, you will recover.
True/False — Kiese Laymon

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism. — Kevin Roose

Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found. — Paul Tremblay

False words do not bring forth fruit. — Sophocles

We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both. — Tom Ridge

But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false. — Leo Tolstoy

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed. — Livy

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. — Dan Aykroyd

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. — Elliott Abrams

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. — Georg Cantor

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. — Dean Kamen

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. — John Stuart Mill

Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid.
Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be
afraid. — Rumi

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. — Anthony Liccione

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. — Lissa Rankin

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. — Aleister Crowley

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions. — Marianne Williamson

The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs. — Debasish Mridha

I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths. — Nikki Rowe

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs. — John Lydon

It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information, — Ted Olson

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. — Mother Teresa

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed
to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting. — Dexter Palmer

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I'm trying to untangle the truth from the false from assumptions from the postulations but run-on sentences are twisting around my throat. — Tahereh Mafi

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. — Thomas C. Foster

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. — George Eliot

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do. — Victor Hugo

Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name. — G. Willow Wilson

You're giving them false hope ... What is false about hope? — Mitch Albom

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. — Pierre Bayle

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false. — Jesse Eisenberg

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth. — Rebecca Brooks

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. — Rumi

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden

When you venture into an unexplored territory, you can prove all previously held beliefs false. — Sipendr

False love is just wanting someone else, but true love is wanting someone else to be happy. — Menna Van Praag

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it. — George Soros

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security. — Noel Whittaker

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose. — Sam Harris

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. — Henry Ward Beecher

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling. — Jane Pauley

Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion — Primo Levi

Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies. — Eric Jerome Dickey

nothing is worse than the false hope someone gives you in your depression — Kim Walters

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. — Thomas Merton

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. — Charles Olson

Looks and words may be, and oftentimes are, false witnesses. — Thomas Hoby

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change. — Kyle Cease

Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything! — William Gibson

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. — Nadia Boulanger

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun. — Heather Mills

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. — Jane Jacobs