A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
~ Mark Twain
Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty
on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.
~
Author Unknown
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
~
Homer Simpson, from the television show The Simpsons
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
~ Mark Twain
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
~
Thomas Jefferson
Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
~
Author Unknown
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
~
Thomas Carlyle
A half truth is a whole lie.
~
Yiddish Proverb
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
~
Charles Edward Montague
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color--blind.
~
Austin O'Malley
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
~
William Blake
There is no well--defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of
one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.
~
O. Henry
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
~
Oliver Wendell
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
~
R.D. Laing
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~ Winston Churchill
Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.
~
Mark Van Doren
The truth is more important than the facts.
~
Frank Lloyd Wright
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
~
James Cardinal Gibbons
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~
Aristotle
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms.
For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
~
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Irish dramatist, poet, author and one of the most iconic figures from
late Victorian society. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment.
For a long time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue.
However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
(1854-1900)
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham LincolnMore Proverbs
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