~TRUTH & LIES~

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." ~Aesop

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." ~Aldous Huxley

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." ~William Shakespeare

"A truth that's told with bad intent
  Beats all the lies you can invent." ~William Blake

"As for truth, in this world there is no advancement, only regression." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by it capturing you." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"The truth shall suffer, or must suffer, in this world, yes it shall suffer, for this whole life is meant to be an examination." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them." ~Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

"Truth is the only thing that cannot be destroyed." ~Vanna Bonta

"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth." ~Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts

"Truth is our most valuable commodity--let us economize." ~Mark Twain

"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company." ~Oscar Wilde

"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." ~Nadine Gordimer

"Live truth instead of professing it." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Honest pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people." ~F. M. Hubbard

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." ~Jerome K. Jerome

"Truth may need no explanation, but a footnote may be necessary." ~Eli Khamarov

"Always tell the truth.  That way, you don't have to remember what you said." ~Mark Twain

"The surest way to remain poor is to be honest." ~Napoleon Bonaparte

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson