Truth, Lies, and Deception

Liars, cheaters, con artists, I hate people like that. I mean who likes people like that?
Give me someone who can be a complete and utter asshole to me, I’d give them more respect for being upfront and honest about it, then someone being nice to me and then stabbing me in the back later on. They are the leaches of society, sucking the life blood of all things good. Lying to some people is like an addiction, they can’t stop, soon they start to believe there own bullshit. I love being honest, really I mean there was a period in my life when I was too honest, brutally honest. Well I’m glad to say that I’ve changed, I’m now better at holding my tongue. Sometimes the truth hurts and I’ve learned that everyone needs to practice a little restraint when it comes to truth telling, sometimes stating the obvious and being brutally honest makes for poor judgment and only ends up in making you in poor standing with that person, sorta like a lie, yeah go figure. However I will say, if I get 3 or 4 beers in me, I start being brutally honest again, that is why I like stopping at 2.

Liar

Definition : person who tells falsehood

Synonyms: cheat , con artist, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, equivocator, fabler, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, maligner, misleader, perjurer,phony, prevaricator, promoter, storyteller, trickster

These are some of my favorite quotes on the subject.

• “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” - William Blake
• “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” - Henry Ellis
• “It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” – Arthur Calwell
• “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” – Aristotle
• “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
• “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “A liar should have a good memory.” – Quintilian
• “We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson
• “The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.” - Anonymous