Re: "Good Stories" More Quotes about lying

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: : Alfred Alder : : If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. : : : : C. E. Ares : : A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation. : : : : Elizabeth Bowen : : Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. : : Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. : : : : Paul Ekman : : Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them. : : : : Anatole France : : Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. : : : : John Gay : : Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them. : : : : Alexander Haig : : It is not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. : : : : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr : : Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. : : : : H. L. Mencken : : The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. : : : : Olin Miller : : A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings. : : : Montaige : : Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. : : : : Friedrich Nietzsche : : The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. : : : : William Shakespeare : : False face must hide what the false heart doth know. : : : : George Bernard Shaw : : The liars punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. : : : : Alexander Solzhenitsyn : : In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. : : : : Robert Louis Stevenson : : The cruelest lies are often told in silence. : : Carl Sandburg : : What kind of liar are you? : : People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. : : People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened. : : People tell "white lies" so as to be decent to others. : : People lie in a pinch, hating to do it, but lying on because it might be worse. : : And people lie just to be liars for crooked personal gain. : : What sort of liar are you? : : Which of these liars are you? : : : : : Because, in the poignant words of Jan Harold Brunvand, : : : "The truth never stands in the way of a good story." : : : Do you have any good stories to tell? Post them here! : : : Robert, LPT Admin. : : Way to go Jake! Truer words were never quoted about lies people tell.

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