Quotes by Poets - Page 208

All sorrows are less with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies
Munia Khan
But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.
Hope Mirrlees
The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!
Hope Mirrlees
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print
John Clare
Seek for truth,you'll find me;Peek for lies,you'll blind me
Munia Khan
You know I love you. You're the only one.""She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.
Margaret Atwood
When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.
Munia Khan
Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you
Dermot Healy
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
Criss Jami
That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.
Yvette Christiansë
Go to the Source of Purity; there you will find the truth. Go to the river of Acheron; there you will find the human truth, it is, however, fed by lies.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Greed:Your own lies make you sick.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.
Criss Jami
What simple andordinary lives we live,underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists
Phil Volatile
Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.
Richelle E. Goodrich
If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.
William Shakespeare
It is not enough to speak but to speak truth
William Shakespeare
Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.
Jennifer Harrison
I love you. You're the only one." She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.
Margaret Atwood
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time — forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.
Suzy Kassem
Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.
Suzy Kassem
the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.
Charles Bukowski
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.
Suzy Kassem
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
Roger Zelazny
With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.
Criss Jami
Your nature may carry deception and lies, but then it won’t stop me from loving you
Alok Jagawat
The I you know isn’t me, you said, truthtelling liarMy roots are not my chainsAnd I to you:   Whose hands have grownthrough mine?   Owl-voiced I cried then:   Who?But yours was the one, the only eye assumedDid we turn each other into liars?holding hands with each others’ chains?
Adrienne Rich
His lies flowed eloquently like honey flowing from a hot spoon
Charmaine J.Forde
How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.
Catherynne M. Valente
There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.
Eric Gamalinda
Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed
Munia Khan
Is a lie still a lieif you say it pretty?
Fortesa Latifi
However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from without. The simplest lie to myself, buried though it may be in the silence of my soul, may yet be as dangerous to my inner liberty as an act of treachery on the marketplace. Widfom and Destiny
Maurice Maeterlinck
A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.
Iwan Goll
When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:To-morrow's falser than the former day;Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blestWith some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.
John Dryden
Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?
Iwan Goll
Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.
Suzy Kassem
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.
Sophie Hannah
Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.
Charles Martin
Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
Catherynne M. Valente
I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique
Catherine Fisher
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
Criss Jami
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss Jami
When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.
Michael Morpurgo
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.
Joy Davidman
Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.
Hermann Hesse
With toddlers around, times are always interesting.
Beth Ann Fennelly
Whether you're explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.
Beth Ann Fennelly
It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins.
Audre Lorde
Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
Audre Lorde
For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them.
William Shakespeare
I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.
Catherynne M. Valente
Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.
Kathleen Rooney