Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Lying
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There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
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Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
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A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
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Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
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Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
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I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?
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