Lying Men Quotes - Page 2

• The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Lying, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1904). “Farmington”

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• The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

  Genghis Khan

  Lying, Men, Roots

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• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Men, Arms

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

  Steve Madden

  Lying, Shoes, Design

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• The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Honesty, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Men, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Men, Coward

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107

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• And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Lying, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

  Carol Gilligan

  Lying, Responsibility, Ties

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

  Chinua Achebe

  Baby, Lying, Men

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.145, Princeton University Press

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• Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

  John Wayne

  Men, Lied, Incidents

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• Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Baby, Lying

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". TV Special, July 10, 1999.

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• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Men, Imagination

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• For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

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• In yesterday's post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95% of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5% expressed a strong preference for lying.

  Scott Adams

  Strong, Sex, Lying

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• By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

  Livy

  Men, Flying, Midst

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• You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

  Judith Rascoe

  Men, Elephants, People

  "Fictional character: John Converse". "Who'll Stop the Rain", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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• Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

  John Green

  Mom, Mother, Lying

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• Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Facts

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

  Sela Ward

  Women, Lying, Getting Older

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• The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

  Francois Mauriac

  Song, Lying, Men

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