It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916
Who lies for you will lie against you. – Bosnian Proverb
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln
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, Disenchantment
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. – George Herbert
With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back. – Russian Proverb
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall off his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigram. (c.1906) Quoted by Ralph Alfred Habas, Morals for Moder
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. – Edgar J. Mohn
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. – Bill Copeland
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. – Mark Twain
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. – Author Unknown
Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Truth fears no questions. – Unknown
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously. – Thomas Sowell
