It is easier to perceive error than to find truth for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen while the latter lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.
Thou shalt not bear false witness Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality we imply that a man is true to his wordtrue to his signature on a contract. The violations of Gods laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Lying increases the creative faculties expands the ego lessens the friction of social contacts…. It is only in lies wholeheartedly and bravely told that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance the nobility the romance the idealism thatbeing what it isit falls so short of in fact and in deed.
With this Ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies Damn Lies and Statistics.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen while the latter lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.
Sin has many tools but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Them that asks no questions isnt told a lie. Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
A liar should have a good memory.
The gain of lying is not to be trusted by any nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
A goodly apple rotten at the heart; O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
The liars punishment is not in the least that he cannot be believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Sanity is a cozy lie.
A lie never lives to be old.
Though shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor.
There are three kinds of lies: lies damned lies and statistics.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.
Its raining my soul its raining but its raining dead eyes.
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone and it will run itself to death.
Thou shalt not bear false witness Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality we imply that a man is true to his wordtrue to his signature on a contract. The violations of Gods laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.
LIAR n. A lawyer with a roving commission.
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar but is a stab at the health of human society.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Ask me no questions and I ll tell you no fibs.
In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Figures wont lie but liars will figure.
It is not a lie its a terminological inexactitude.
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time till at length it becomes habitual.
The most exhausting thing in life I have discovered is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.
Lying increases the creative faculties expands the ego lessens the friction of social contacts…. It is only in lies wholeheartedly and bravely told that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance the nobility the romance the idealism thatbeing what it isit falls so short of in fact and in deed.
Lying increases the creative faculties expands the ego and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.’08-02-2010
By the time you swear youre his Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite undying Lady make note of this: One of you is lying.
A liar must have a good memory. Mendacem oportet esse memorem
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.