Michel de Montaigne Quotes

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

A liar should have a good memory.

Liars need to have good memories.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

You get so used to lying that after a while it’s hard to remember what the truth is.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

Liars ought to have good memories.

He [William Clinton] has terrible trouble with the truth. I don’t think Presidents should have trouble with the truth.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.