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A good memory is needed once we have lied.(Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night. (Quote by - Robin Hayes )

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little )

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified! (Quote by - Danielle Steel)

Lying is done with words and also with silence. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)

But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. (Quote by - Ludovico Ariosto)

Round numbers are always false. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? (Quote by - Jim Capaldi)

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. (Quote by - Dennis Nilsen)

A half truth is a whole lie. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. (Quote by - Jaroslav Seifert )

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. (Quote by - Spiro T. Agnew )

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records. (Quote by - Richard Reeves)

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. (Quote by - Ovid)

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)

If you're lying, you're lying. (Quote by - John C. Maxwell)

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

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. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)

There's hostility to lying, and there should be. (Quote by - Bob Woodward)

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. (Quote by - John Updike)

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