lies

Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies

A lie has many colours, while white is the only faithful colour of truth.

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situations. In reality, they fool themselves into believing they are healed, until that lie is corrected by time, further information or their own personal growth. True healing comes when we learn to not avoid truth, but face it. Only then will we be set free.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn.

You really are young, aren't you, Blondie? You know how the game is played__eople'll say anything in the heat of the moment.

I'm just not going to do it so that we can say that we've done it. And I'm not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is 'please don't tell anyone' or 'let's forget it ever happened'. If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

This is the gateway to Hell, baby_ Welcome to The Underworld.

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Look at you Infidelity_, shaking his head in frustration. ____ not sure if your choice of drug is passion, the thrill of the affair or the man himself, but there is a void you are trying to have us fulfill in your life and you are hooked! The secrets, the lies, the lame attempts to quit sleeping around_the isolation; don__ you get it? YOU LOVE INFIDELITY!"- Loving Infidelity

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18