"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"

"Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck."

"I don't watch the ball. I watch them. Like I said — You make your own luck. Perception is reality. And it doesn't matter a tuppeny toss where the ball actually lands... Just as long as they see what I want them to see."

"No one I met at this time — doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients — failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."

"“It was just good luck, last minute luck.” “Your ‘luck’ was mostly sweat and intuition.”"

"Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies."

"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell."

"Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti."

"Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise."

"Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments."

"Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich lüge, nicht."

"Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck."

"The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples—that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."

"As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood."

"An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar."

"Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto, Che la facesse di menzogna rea."

"And none speaks false, when there is none to hear."

"A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre."

"You lie—under a mistake— For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think."

"When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live, And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed, Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need Than truth, if lies a little peace can give."

"Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors’ eyes?"

"Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in præcipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere."

"There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience."

"If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it. But if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it."

"But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead."

"I mean you lie—under a mistake."

"The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. … How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"

"No amount of careful planning can beat pure luck."

"“I don’t think he (Branch Rickey) would lie,” said Red Smith, “but he was so good at evasion, at circumlocution, that he didn’t have to lie.”"

"Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus."

"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity."

"Everybody lies."

"It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies."

"Stop! I am not a real Sharkslayer! I lied."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying!"

"Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies."

"An occasional little white lie such as Weston's probably won't cause any lasting damage. And at times, telling the truth—particularly the whole truth to a child who's not at an age to handle it—may do more harm than good, they say."

"An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

"'Tis as easy as lying."

"These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable."

"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."

"Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock."

"He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool."

"For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."

"Tell a lie and then tell the truth: it will be considered a lie."

"To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars."

"If there is a punishment for telling the truth, then many people will tell lies. If telling lies is incentivized, then many people will tell lies. And if you allow mobs of people online or off to intimidate people and don’t stand up to them, then many people will be intimidated. And they will change what they say accordingly."