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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, Shoes, Trust, Travel, Truth Is

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

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

Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin

Great, Truth, Truth Is, Half, Often

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

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

Truth, Trust, Good, Better, Reason, Tell

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

Character, Power, Greatness, People, 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, Two

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, Emotions, You, Confused

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 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

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, Young, Eat, Secret, Your

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

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, Chance, World, Halfway, Pants

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, People, Election, Never, Before

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 most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. Friedrich Nietzsche

Others, Lying, Common, Most, Lies, Which

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock

Nature, Time, Water, Sky, Day, Clouds

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved. Charles Spurgeon

Hope, Trust, I Am, Me, Evidence, Him

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. - Pope John Paul II

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II

Worse, More, Guarded, Terrible, Than

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

Great, Truth, Truth Is, Enemy, Myth

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, Sail, Moving, World, Stand

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

Never lie, never cheat, never steal. - John Wooden

Never lie, never cheat, never steal. John Wooden

Never, Cheat, Steal

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor

Best, Achievement, Roots, You, True

Not gonna lie - having a personal glam squad is pretty amazing. Elaine Welteroth

Amazing, Personal, Squad, Pretty, Having

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated. Alveda King

Racism, Treat, Minds, Others, Want

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