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Lying: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in præcipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere. So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.— CICERO — Academici. IV. 21.
Hercle audivi esse optimum mendacium. Quicquid dei dicunt, id rectum est dicere. By Hercules! I have often heard that your piping-hot lie is the best of lies: what the gods dictate, that is right.— PLAUTUS — Mostellaria. III. 1. 134.
M. Suave mari magno, turbantibus æquora ventis E terrâ magnum alterius spectare laborum. It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.— LUCRETIUS — De Rerum Natura. II. 1.
Os homini sublime dedit cœlumque tueri Jussit; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.— OVID — Metamorphoses. I. 85.
Mille hominum species et rerum discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est nec voto vivitur uno. There are a thousand kinds of men, and their sense of things is various: each has his own inclination, nor do all live for the same object.— PERSIUS — Satiræ. V. 52.
Piper, non homo. He is pepper, not a man.— PETRONIUS ARBITER
Homo homini lupus. Man is a wolf to man.— PLAUTUS — Asinaria. II. 4. 88.
Homo vitæ commodatus, non donatus est. Man has been lent, not given, to life.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am a man; what concerns man must concern me. S.— TERENCE — Heauton-Timoroumenos.
O dass sie ewig grünen bliebe, Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe. O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.— SCHILLER — Lied von der Glocke.
Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte Für ein glücklich liebend Paar. In the smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair.— SCHILLER — Der Jüngling am Bache. St. 4.
Und Lust und Liebe sind die Fittige zu grossen Thaten. Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.— GOETHE — Iphigenia auf Tauris. II.
1. 107. Was ist das Leben ohne Liebesglanz! What is life without the light of Love!— SCHILLER — Wallenstein's Tod. IV. 12.
Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich an? If I love you, what business is that of yours?— GOETHE — Wilhelm Meister. IV. 9.
Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag! Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.— VON MÜNCH BELLINGHAUSEN — Der
Sohn der Wildnis. II. 1. Amor, ch'al cor gentil ratto s'apprende. Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.— DANTE — Inferno. V. 100.
Amor ch' a nullo amato amar perdona. Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.— DANTE — Inferno. V. 103.
Che amar chi t'odia, ell'è impossibil cosa. For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.— ALFIERI — Polinice. II. 4.
Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti. A good memory is needed once we have lied.— CORNEILLE — Le Menteur. IV. 5.
La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'éloge ment après leur mort. Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.— VOLTAIRE — Lettre à Bordes.
Jan. 10, 1769. Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments. A liar is always lavish of oaths.— CORNEILLE — Le Menteur. III. 5.
Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich lüge, nicht. When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.— GOETHE — Sprüche in Prosa. III.