Montaigne: He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying. There are some whose memory never fails them!
Sam Rayburn: Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sir Walter Scott: What a tangled web a liar weaves, When he practises to deceive!
Thomas Jefferson: 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.
Virginia Woolfe: If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Abraham Lincoln: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Adrienne Rich: Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Benjamin Disraeli: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
Demosthenes: Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
George Eliot: Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
John F. Kennedy: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
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‘ Lie is alloy to gold’
By Francis Bacon, the great Essayist who is known as the wisest, brightest and meanest of all
I do not defer what great people have said about telling a lie but I would like to add that the fist lexographer who incorporated this word in dictionary must have thought its utility; perhaps his son might have been a lawyer whose profession was dependent on telling lies. May be , a goldsmith who knew its utility; or something similar….
One thing that I would like to add is that lie when mixed with gold gives a biscuit a shape of necklace to honour a neck otherwise a biscuit would be celled in an almirah unwatched, unnoticed and unevaluated. This credit goes to alloy ( Lie ).
I hope I would not be misunderstood as a liar. Facts are based on experience.
KK Pandey
Indore
There is no such thing as half-truth. Truth when it bends ...breaks.
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