Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The lie is a condition of life.

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.