Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

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.

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

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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

My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me. I think about that a lot. I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called "Starry Room" and then I started turning over a new leaf. Now, I'm completely honest with girls all the time and they just get mad at me.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

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.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

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

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.

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

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

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

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.