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The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22
— Deborah Smith
I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
— Jim Elliot
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
— Christian Friedrich Hebbel
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
— Samuel Johnson
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
— Marcus Aurelius
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
— Leo Buscaglia
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
— Nachman Of Breslov
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.
— Hugh Nibley
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society ...
— Maria Montessori
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
— Louis Gustave Vapereau
They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.
— William Rivers Pitt
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
— Jonathan Swift
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
— Ernest Gaines
The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.
— Walter Russell
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther
There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
— Blaise Pascal
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men lie, women lie, numbers dont
— Jay-Z
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
— Julia Ward Howe
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
— Louis L'Amour
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
— Henry David Thoreau
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
— Ray Bradbury
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.
— H.L. Mencken
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
— Henrik Ibsen
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
— Edward Abbey
All men are born truthful and die liars.
— Luc De Clapiers
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
— George Santayana
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
— Michel De Montaigne
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
— Nick Jonas
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
— William S. Burroughs
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
— Michel De Montaigne
The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play
— Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
— Paul G. Hoffman
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
— Michel De Montaigne
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
— Francis Bacon
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
— Aeschylus
I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.
— Gabrielle Dennis
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
— Lillian Hellman
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
— L. Ron Hubbard
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
— Matthew Arnold
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
— Woodrow Wilson
Man is a living liea bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
— H. Emilie Cady
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
— Marcus Aurelius
I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
