Will Rogers Quotes

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

I don't have any reason to lie about anything.

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Everything I say is true.

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.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.