From Fuzzy:
"If you're going to lie, you better make damn sure you don't get caught. Credibility is like virginity; you can't get it back once you have given it away." ~ Fuzzy
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.” ~ John Grisham, The Testament
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.” ~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.” ~ José N. Harris
“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.” ~ Criss Jami
“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.” ~ Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” ~ Alfred Tennyson
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.” ~ Criss Jami
“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” ~ Al David
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort” ~ Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” ~ S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” ~ George Washington
"It's tempting to lie to win an argument, but you pay for it down the road and its costs more later too." ~ Fuzzy