Lying Quotations
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato
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.
Dale Carnegie
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen
Lying Translations
lying in French is gisant, sis, mentant
lying in German is liegend, liegend, liegenden
lying in Italian is giacente
lying in Spanish is yacente, mentiroso
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