Maureen Johnson Quotes

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

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

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

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

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

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

No lie can live forever.

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

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

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.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.