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| 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, |
| If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain |
| 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, |
| 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, "Auguries of Innocence," |
| The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~ Aristotle |
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| 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 |
| Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~ Josh Billings |
| The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~ Ambrose Bierce |
| 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, |
| A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~ Author Unknown |
| We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~ Tad Williams |
| Truth fears no questions. ~ Unknown |
| There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously. ~ Thomas Sowell |
| Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| I don’t mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ~ Samuel Butler, |
| 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 |
| If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~ Author Unknown |