Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Lying

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

• Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patience, Lying, Blow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

• There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, White, Black

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

• 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?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Roots

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.320, Gale Cengage Learning

• Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Wealth, Friction

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Needs, Blades

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Flower, Thinking

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.120

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Strong, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.111

• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liars, Lying, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

• Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Order

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.389

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Character, Littles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Needs, Handle

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.20

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Lying, Men

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