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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. (Quote by - Gary Numan)

A liar is always lavish of oaths. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past. (Quote by - Monica Lewinsky)

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. (Quote by - Patrick Murray)

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. (Quote by - James Hall)

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. (Quote by - Slovenian Proverb)

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. (Quote by - Robert Brault)

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. (Quote by - Otto Hahn)

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

The lie is a condition of life. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State. (Quote by - John Burns)

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. (Quote by - Matthew Lesko)

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. (Quote by - Kevin Richardson)

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche )

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