Pastoral Resources

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.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

If you're lying, you're lying.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?