I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere
He whose belly is full believes not him whose belly is empty.
—Thomas Fuller
Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
—Homer Simpson
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light"—that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that.… The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
—Bob Dylan
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
—H. L. Mencken
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.
—Leonard Cohen
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.
—Flannery O'Connor
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
—Charles Kettering
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
—Ralph Hodgson
There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.
—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
—S. E. Hinton
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
—John Burroughs
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
—Edith Sitwell