Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

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

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

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

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

If you're lying, you're lying.

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

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

… a man well known for his congenital inability to tell the truth

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

... the most notorious liar in the country.

In my lifetime I have never seen such a volume of deceiving and dissembling.

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

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.