Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Honesty

"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."
-Abraham Lincoln

"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
-Pope John Paul II

"Honesty is not a policy, it is a state of mind."
-Eugene L’Hote

"Frankness invites frankness."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it falsehood tomorrow."
-William James

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
-Elvis Presley

"A belief is not true because it is useful."
-Henri Amiel

"Lying can never save us from another lie."
-Vaclav Havel

"Flattery makes friends, truth enemies."
-Spanish proverb

"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in."
-A.E. Housman

"If you add to the truth, you subtract from it."
-The Talmud

"When all else fails, tell the truth."
-Donald T. Regan

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
-Edgar A. Shoaff

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