Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Thomas Huxley

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

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

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Desiderius Erasmus

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de Montaigne

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
Steve Wozniak