Pastoral Resources

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.