Quotable Sunday 3/1/09 ~ Honesty

Welcome to Quotable Sunday! I can’t wait to get around and read your quotes today. The rules of course are never changing but in case this is your first time joining in, I would like to welcome you and let you know the basics:

~Post one or more of your favorite quotes on your blog in a post.
~Come back here and link your post in the mister linky below.
~Check back throughout the day and go read some awesome comments and leave some luv!

My quotes today are on honesty:

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O’Malley

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

Comments

  1. Ambrosia Jefferson says:

    Your Austin O’Malley quote is oh so true.

  2. rmgales says:

    Love your quotes this week. The quote by Abraham Lincoln is my favorite: No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

    Love your blog makeover!

  3. Lolli says:

    I love that–a half truth is a whole lie. True!

  4. Upstatemomof3 says:

    I like a half truth is a whole lie.

  5. Jenn@mylifewiththecrazies says:

    Thanks Toni… I am heading off to post mine.. will be back to sign Mr Linky! Have a great sunday!

  6. Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) says:

    Great quotes again this week, Toni!! My two favorites are:

    Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

    No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

    Sorry I’ve been scarce this week – it’s been ‘a week’… ;) I’m off to play catch up on your earlier posts…Happy Quotable Sunday! :)

  7. Valerie(momof3crazykids) says:

    Love that- If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything-
    Great quotes for today!!

  8. Fiona says:

    oooh I wanna play! I’ll have to give it some thought!!

  9. Amy A.K.A. "The Mrs." says:

    If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

    I LOVE this quote. That’s a great one to live by.

  10. Jenni Jiggety says:

    Honesty….is such a lonely word

    ::::Channeling Billy Joel:::

    Happy Sunday, Toni!

  11. Just A Mom (Call me JAM for short) says:

    First one is my favorite! Happy Sunday!

  12. Shelley K. says:

    Great quotes, Toni, and a great topic this week :)

    Have a Super Sunday :)

  13. LT says:

    Nice quotes! I like A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent, such an interesting thought…

  14. The Chocoholic says:

    Hi!
    Stopping by from SITS!
    I liked your post.
    Great idea!

  15. Sara says:

    My favorite is “a half truth is a whole lie”.

    I have encountered so many of these in the last week or two and when I find someone who can be wholeheartedly honest with me, well I grab on to them. Umm.. you’re kinda stuck with me. Too bad!

  16. Jennifer says:

    Great topic Toni! These are all great quotes. I had not heard of this one and do so like it: Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

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