A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Author: Mark Twain
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Author: Mark Twain
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Author: Winston Churchill
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: radio address, October 26, 1939
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Author: Mark Twain
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Author: Winston Churchill
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Author: Mark Twain
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Author: Plato
Source: Dialogues, Phaedo
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
Author: William Shakespeare
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Creusa
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Author: Aristotle
Source: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Author: Mark Twain
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It is a great treachery that you tell your brother something he accepts as truth from you, but you are lying.
Author: Muhammad (PBUH)
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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