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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon

Truth, Trust, Shoes, Travel, World, Way

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. - Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. Dalai Lama

Good, Appreciation, Roots, Goodness

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. - Paulo Coelho

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. Paulo Coelho

Eyes, Hide, Someone, Looks, Anything, He

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar Gracian

Integrity, Reputation, Single, Whole

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sea, Waiting, Beach, Gift, Reward, Open

Half a truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin

Truth, Great, Truth Is, Half, Often

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert

Intelligence, You, Confused, Emotions

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. Anne Frank

Power, Character, People, Greatness, Us

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. - Jack Nicholson

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. Jack Nicholson

Life, Dating, People, Police, You, Only

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. - Otto von Bismarck

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Otto von Bismarck

War, Election, People, Never, Much, Hunt

A lie cannot live. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

A lie cannot live. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. - Bo Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett

Good, Truth, Trust, Better, Reason, Tell

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin

Truth, Enough, Becomes, Often

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball

Age, Live, Eat, Young, Secret, Your

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. - Aeschylus

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Aeschylus

Me, Words, Be Kind, Sickness, Kind, Than

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill

Truth, World, Chance, Pants, Get, Before

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wind, Sail, Sometimes, Reach, Anchor

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong. Scottie Pippen

Smile, Face, Me, Disrespect, Wrong, Like

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. Leonardo da Vinci

Light, Shadow, Darkness, Detail, May

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. - H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. H. L. Mencken

History, Age, Legend, Dignity, Attained

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy

Truth, Great, Truth Is, Enemy, Myth

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. Martin Amis

Rose, Art, Lion, Grow, Down, Will

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. Dean Martin

Drunk, You, Holding On, Without, Floor

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Moses

Love, Heart, God, Today, Walk, Children

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Great, Wind, World, Sail, Stand, Moving

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King

Truth, Friends, Speak, Duty, Enemies

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