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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

Lies and victimhood make evil possible

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

Lie down so I can recognise you

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

Lie down and offer your throat. No, wait, that's how dogs submit. I know! Offer her you're wallet!" Oberon

Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.