– Pietro Aretino
– Michel de Montaigne
I think of the person who tells me that I look good when I know I don’t. Perhaps I have an outfit on that isn’t flattering, or a haircut that leaves much to be desired. For it is he, who says I look good when I don’t, that convinces me he has bad taste, and isn’t a good judge of such attributes.
So you may think you are being nice telling a political lie. I see it differently. I believe, instead, you are tarnishing your credibility.
“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”
Edgar J. Mohn
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, essayist & poet
Tim Allen had this to say about Martha Stewart:
“Boy, I feel safer now that she’s behind bars. O.J. Simpson & Kobe Bryant are walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the one woman in America willing to cook and clean and work in the yard and haul her ass to jail.”