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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157<![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26158<![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26159<![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26160<![CDATA[No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26161<![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26162<![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148<![CDATA[You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26149<![CDATA[We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26150<![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151<![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152<![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26153<![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26154<![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155<![CDATA[It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26156<![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135<![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26136<![CDATA[One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26137<![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138<![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26139<![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140<![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26141<![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26142<![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143<![CDATA[A liar should have a good memory. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26144<![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145<![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26146<![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132<![CDATA[All men are born truthful and die liars. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26133<![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26134<![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124<![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125<![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26126<![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26127<![CDATA[Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26128<![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129<![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130<![CDATA[Round numbers are always false. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26131<![CDATA[Liars are always most disposed to swear. [It., A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26107<![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. [Lat., Se non volea ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108<![CDATA[And none speaks false, when there in none to hear. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26109<![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26110<![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26111<![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26112<![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make, Why they lie also--under ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113<![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26114<![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115<![CDATA[So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26116<![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117<![CDATA[A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26118