Hosea Ballou Quotes

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

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

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Liars need to have good memories.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

A half truth is a whole lie.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

[Richard Cheney is] an unabashed bender of the truth.