Sam Rayburn Quotes

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

There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what they are. And you don't have to make sure your story matches everyone else's.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

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

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

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

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

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