Barry McGuire Quotes

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

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.

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

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

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

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

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.