Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
Boris Pasternak

The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
George Steiner

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
Bob Geldof

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace