“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
“There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.”
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965Related quotes
“901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Context: Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: — "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
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The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 249
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Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
On Barack Obama during an interview with WJLA. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-obama-election-2016/ (August 2, 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, August <br class="br">Variant: President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1964)
