“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 119
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“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”
Source: The Issa Valley
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
Amas d'épithètes, mauvaises louanges: ce sont les faits qui louent, et la manière de les raconter.
Aphorism 13
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit
A Language Older Than Words (2000)
“… lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
Source: All These Things I've Done
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.