The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Satchel Paige

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Edmund Burke

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Charles M. Schulz

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Hal Borland

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Adolf Hitler

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Elizabeth Bowen

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King