Isaac Marion Quotes

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

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

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.