Margaret Stohl Quotes

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

I refuse to lie to children.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

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

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.