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Everybody says he is honest, but how many really mean it? As befits a word whose first two letters are HO, there are lots of quotes about honesty. Mr. Google shows a lot of lists of honesty quotes, of which this blog only got around to one and two . Does purchasing a better listing on google count for dishonesty? How about page two , which had an ad for turbo tax at the bottom. Tax and honest should not be used in the same paragraph. (In the quotes below, a ~ before the author indicates source two) (Of the credited authors below, only one…Emily Dickinson…is a woman) (This is a repost)
“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time” Dave Von Ronk /// “The first two letters of honest are HO.” PG /// “You should not use honesty as a blunt weapon. Just because something is true, does not mean that saying it out loud is a good idea.” PG /// “You do not increase the truth of what you say by saying it louder. You just make more noise. ” PG /// “He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite, of whom you should beware” author unknown /// “Honesty: The best of all the lost arts” Mark Twain /// “Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense” author unknown /// “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916 /// “Who lies for you will lie against you.” ~Bosnian Proverb /// “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” ~William Blake /// “Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.” ~Josh Billings /// “Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.” ~Mark Twain /// “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ~Winston Churchill /// “The truth is more important than the facts.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright /// “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” ~Richard J. Needham /// “Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.” ~Author Unknown /// “Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.” ~Emily Dickinson /// “Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.” ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 /// “Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?” ~Patrick Sky /// “Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” ~Slovenian Proverb /// “Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up.” ~Author Unknown /// “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~Mark Twain /// “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.” ~Winston Churchill ( PG wonders who really said it first.) /// “It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.” ~Homer Simpson /// “There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook. ” ~Groucho Marx