False Witness Quotes

#1. Proverbs 19:8-9 8 To acquire wisdom is to love yourself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.

Anonymous

#2. A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Anonymous

#3. Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

Philip Sidney

#4. Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.

Robert Doisneau

#5. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.

Rene Girard

#6. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#7. Since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.

Tom Robbins

#8. There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Mark Twain

#9. When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

John Lancaster Spalding

#10. People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.

T.F. Hodge

#11. 9. A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Anonymous

#12. And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Pat Robertson

#13. One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Laurie Colwin

#15. That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")

Xiao Hong

#16. Love doesn't fade. It just changes as it grows.

Pleasefindthis

#17. Ultimately, Hausner's efforts regarding the murder were thwarted when questions posed by both Servatius and the judges proved that Avraham Gordon, whom Hausner called as the witness to the murder, could not have observed it.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 99

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#18. Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my "999 (or Nick Leeson)" account.

Jon Edgell

#19. Jaguar - For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

Dudley Moore

#20. Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#21. Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

Elie Wiesel

#22. Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Marjane Satrapi

#23. She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. ( ... ), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

Scott Westerfeld

#24. Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#25. At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

David Mixner