Lies

Famous quotes containing the word lies:

“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Here lies the body of W. W.,
Who never more will trouble you, trouble you.”
—Anonymous. “On William Wilson, Tailor,” from H. J. Loaring’s Curious Records (1872)