It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French

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

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill, “ear-witness” quoting c.1936 about Stanley Baldwi

The truth is more important than the facts. – Frank Lloyd Wright