“Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
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“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
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The Obvious Child
Song lyrics, The Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”
Source: The Midnight Palace