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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.


Laurence J. Peter

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MICHAEL CHANG Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laure...
LAURENCE J. PETER If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
HENNY YOUNGMAN If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
STEVEN WRIGHT If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
MARK HOPPUS If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
MARCELENE COX If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
WILLIAM E. HICKSON Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
TRYGVE LIE I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall p...
TRYGVE LIE A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
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CHARLIE SHEEN 'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, ...
WILLIAM EDWARD HICKSON If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
DIANA WYNNE JONES If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
LEO ROSTEN If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your ju...
DEVIN J. MONROE Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you a...
ANITA SHREVE Is a lie still a lie
if you say it pretty?
FORTESA LATIFI If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
SCOTT WESTERFELD If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. FIELDS You lie your biggest lie when you lie to yourself ..
RANA MAGDY If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
CURLY HOWARD If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
JOEL MCHALE If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool abou...
W. C. FIELDS If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but ...
STEVE MARABOLI If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations
JONATHAN TROPPER If at first you don't succeed, give up.
HOMER SIMPSON Tell me you'll never lie to me again, and I'll go with you.
PAT SHAND People may lie to you over the phone, but they may not lie to you looking at you face to face.
DARRELL SMITH Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.
RICK RIORDAN No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know ...
LEWIS B. SMEDES When you lie to others, you lie to yourself.
JIM GENOVESE Don't lie if you don't have to.
LEO SZILARD If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned ...
If at first you don't succeed, order some pizza.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If at first you do succeed, try something harder
PROVERB If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents
MARCELENE COX If I try at first and I fail I try again, if I have tried a thousand times and still fail, I will tr...
SIZWE GOODMAN MAVUSO Saying that you never lie, is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how pe...
ZACK GREINKE to seek the truth, you must lie to a liar, & if they believe in your lie, they will tell you the tru...
DAVID J. MARTINEZ If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
M. H. ALDERSON If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
M. H. ALDERSON If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
M.H. ALDERSON I was in Catholic school where you were taught not to lie, ... It's hard to believe a young child at...
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LAURA SCHLESSINGER If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
KIRK KIRKPATRICK If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving.
HENRY YOUNGMAN If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions.
DANIEL NEMEC If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
M. H. ALDERSON Peter," she began. He looked up at her, and she could see the pain in his eyes. "I love you," she sa...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT By believing a lie you make the lie a truth for you.
JAIME CONTRERAS Every treatment is a lie. If you care you cure.
APURVA GAGLANI If you don't succeed at first, hide all evidence that you tried.
SIMPSONS If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence that you tried.
DAVID BRENT If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried
DAVE BARRY If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
STEVEN WRIGHT If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
STEVEN WRIGHT If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
HARRY F. BANKS If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP If at first you do succeed, don't take any more chances.
KIN HUBBARD If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.
WARREN MILLER If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything
BILL LYON If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
OLIVER HERFORD If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is NOT for you. (BUMPER STICKER)
DARYNDA JONES I've been outright lied to by public works. If they lied to me once, they'll lie to me again.
BRIAN BLAIR Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
OLIVER HERFORD Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.
JENNIFER NIVEN IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie ...
GORDON BETHUNE I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, th...
RIVER PHOENIX Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie ...
HOPE ESTHEIM To own beauty is the first lie of it.
CHRIS CAMPANIONI A lie cannot live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT “The perfect lie must have a pinch of truth.”
KEGGAH CORNER But did he lie?
JAMES SENSENBRENNER If I will not lie, you will not see the truth.
ALON CALINAO DY You may lie.
LOIS LOWRY -"You won't like me if I'm cruel."
-"I don't like you now."
-"We don't lie."
-"I'm mo...
MELISSA MARR If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
JOHN GOTTI He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later, then you would tell me a liar. If you di...
TOBA BETA True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most...
JOHN GREEN A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut...
ANURAG SHOURIE Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.
TOBA BETA Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.
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LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
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