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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and read more
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all read more
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it...
Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it...
He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
