All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
– John Arbuthnot
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- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. – John Emerich Edward DalbergActon
- Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- …throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in. – Maureen Corrigan
- I’m supposed to eat shit with a fork and a knife and say thank you when I’m done swallowing this crap? – Brandi Glanville
- The words hurt my throat a little -“ probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great. – Emma Winters
- Greasy burgers and fries are so much more delicious than swallowing a cow whole. – Sarah Nicolas
- Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That’s right, let’s see ’em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving – – Thomas Harris
- I wasnt political in order to be political – Jerzy Grotowski
- The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing. – James Taranto
- Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. – Andy Zaltzman
- As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker
- The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers. – John Gardner
- The more you believe, the more you’ll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway. – Will Advise
- He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end. – Charles Bukowski
- …lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn’t ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. – Charles ens
- What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Henry Stanley Haskins
- You are dead, you know!- he screeched delightedly, -œCome on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE! – William Axtell
- To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor. – Bauvard
- But life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last. – Prince
- I prefer dead writers because you don’t run into them at parties. – Fran Lebowitz
- Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly. – Stella Gibbons
- A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare
- a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves – Derrick Jensen
- Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist. – Andrew Sullivan
- In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. – Roman Payne
- Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc. – Nike Thaddeus
- Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting. – Sukant Ratnakar
- Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else – not as fragile as we think they are. – Julie Powell
- We’ve got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. – Rivera Sun
- We’ve got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. – Rivera Sun
- Well let’s face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties? – Nigel Slater
- She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes–a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely. – Erica Bauermeister
- Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated. – Bill Bryson
- Somehow, I think God will forgive her. If not, eh, Hell has better parties anyway. – CT Phipps
- they don’t serve champagne at pity parties – Cara Alwill Leyba