• Anytime you find that truth stands in your way, you can be certain that you are headed in the wrong direction.
• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings)
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats, from Ode on a Grecian Urn)
• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud)
• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. (Samuel Butler)
• Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. (Henry David Thoreau)
• Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
• Butterflies don't fly
  They just hitch hike the winds
  Butterflies are a lie
  The deceit is a worm with wings
• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
• The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie. (Shapley R. Hunter)
• Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Robert L. Stevenson)
• Do not do what you would undo if caught. (Leah Arendt)
• Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truth. (Moliere)
• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. (Leslie Stephen)
• Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Aldous Huxley)
• Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. (George E. MacDonald)
• Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. (Charles A. Dana)
• God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. (Charles Caleb Colton)
• The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides.
• The highest compact we can make with another is "let there be truth between us two for evermore". (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. (Plato)
• Honesty is the best policy
• Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. (Steve Landesberg)
• I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. (H. L. Mencken)
• I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. (Newton Isaac)
• I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.
• I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. (Lee Iacocca)
• I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
• I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. (from Colonel Oliver North's Iran-Contra testimony)
• If it weren't for humor, we might never get at the truth.
• If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. (Angela Thirkell)
• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. (Charles Horton Cooley)
• If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, then you are all right.
• If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. (B. Traven)
• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
• If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain)
• Integrity - When you do the right thing even though no one is watching.
• Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. (Peter Scotese)
• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. (Spencer Johnson)
• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. (Jerome K. Jerome)
• It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. (English Proverb)
• It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Conan Doyle)
• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. (Samuel Johnson)
• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it. (A. A. Hodge)
• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• 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. (H. L. Mencken)
• It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. (Noel Coward)
• It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. (Vernon Howard)
• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. (Aesop)
• A lie can be half 'round the world before the truth gets it's boots on. (James Callaghan)
• Life is simpler when you tell the truth.
• Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.
• Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. (Rick Pitino)
• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. (Thomas Carlyle)
• A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. (Cardinal De Retz)
• Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)
• Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. (Mark Twain)
• Never trust anybody who says "trust me".
• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie)
• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. (Charles Caleb Colton)
• No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts. (Al Kersha)
• Nobody believes the official spokesman...but everybody trusts an unidentified source. (Ron Nesen)
• Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. (Charles Caleb Colton)
• O, what a tangled web we weave,
  When first we practise to deceive! (Sir Walter Scott)
• Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)
• People who are brutally honest often get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. (Richard J. Needham)
• Pretty much all the truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
• One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences. (O. A. Battista)
• The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr)
• People will believe anything if you whisper it.
• Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity. (Charles Swindoll)
• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. (Frank Herbert)
• Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth. (Kahlil Gibran)
• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. (Jean Giraudoux)
• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. (Charles De Gaulle)
• Some stories are true that never happened. (Elie Wiesel)
• Sometimes silence is not golden - just yellow.
• Speak the truth, but leave immediately after!
• Telling someone the truth is a loving act. (Mal Pancoast)
• There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times. (Richard Whately)
• The thief who has no opportunity to steal thinks he is an honest man. (Hebrew Proverb)
• This above all; to thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare)
• To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved. (George MacDonald)
• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. (Orison Swett Marden)
• To thine own self be true.
• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. (Robert Brault)
• Trust everybody, but cut the cards. (Finley Peter Dunne)
• Truth and credibility are usually incompatible.
• Truth exists. Only lies are invented. (Georges Braque)
• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. (Graham Greene)
• Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it. (Walter Savage Landor)
• The truth is a wonderful thing, not a burden one must carry. (La Rochefourauld)
• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. (Henry David Thoreau)
• Truth is not determined by majority vote. (Doug Gwyn)
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple. (Oscar Wilde)
• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. (Voltaire)
• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.
• Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. (William Penn)
• The truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)
• A truth that's told with bad intent
  Beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake)
• We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. (Blaise Pascal)
• We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. (Harry S. Truman)
• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. (Walt Whitman)
• Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow. (Yumus Emre)
• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. (William Blake)
• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. (Otto von Bismarck)
• While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. (Sissela Bok)
• Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction. Fiction, after all, has to make sense. (Mark Twain)
• With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back. (Russian Proverb)
• You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. (Sheila Ballantyne)
• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. (Frank Crane)
• You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey)
• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. (Aldous Huxley)

Communication and Honesty

Lying to a partner is never right but sometimes it is understandable. Some people try to control their partner by becoming upset at things they disapprove of or don't like. The other person resorts to lying to avoid upsetting them.
True communication involves both a willingness to hear the truth and a willingness to tell the truth. If one person refuses to hear the truth the other person may stop telling it. People need to give each other the freedom to be honest.
It is fine to express your feelings about a partner's behavior and hope that they will change. It is quite another to use emotional blackmail to prevent them from doing things you don't like. Adults should be in charge of their own behavior. Obviously if their actions are illegal or immoral that changes things - as long you don't try to apply you own moral values on them. Adults also have a right to decide on their own moral values.

Setting an Example

It's about time someone spoke up for the much-maligned younger generation:

When Johnny was 6, he was with his father when they were caught speeding. He saw his father hand the officer a $5 with his driver's license. No ticket.

When Johnny was 10, be broke his glasses on the way to school. He heard his mother tell the man from the insurance company that they had been stolen and they collected $57.

When Johnny was 15, he made right guard on the high school football team. His coach taught him to block and, at the same time, grab the opposing end by the shirt so the official couldn't see it.

When he was 16, he took a summer job at a big market. His job was to put the overripe tomatoes in the bottom of the boxes and good ones on top.

When Johnny went to college, he was approached by an upperclassman who offered him the answers to an English exam for $3, "It's O.K. kid," he was told, "everybody does it." Johnny was caught and sent home in disgrace.

"How could you do this to your mother and me?" his father asked. "You never learned anything like this at home!"

If there's one thing the adult world can't stand, it's a kid that cheats.

The Biggest Lies

• The check is in the mail.
• I'll respect you in the morning.
• I'm from your government, and I am here to help you.
• You get this one, I'll pay next time.
• My wife doesn't understand me.
• Trust me, I'll take care of everything.
• Of course I love you.
• I am getting a divorce.
• Drinking? Why, no, Officer.
• I never inhaled.
• It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing.
• I never watch television except for PBS.
• ...but we can still be good friends.
• She means nothing to me.
• Don't worry, I can go another 20 miles when the gauge is on empty.
• I gave at the office.
• Don't worry, he's never bitten anyone.
• I'll call you later.
• We'll release the upgrade by the end of the year.
• I've never done anything like this before
• Now, I'm going to tell you the truth
• It's supposed to make that noise.
• I *love* your new (hat/haircut/dress/suit...)!
• ...then take a left. You can't miss it.
• Yes, I did.