"The biggest liar in the world is They Say. (Norman Douglas)"
"A liar needs a good memory. (Quintilian)"
"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most are those who try to tell them the truth. (H.l, Mencken)"
"It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be
dishonest. (Al Capone)"
"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will
drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie,
there are strong forces pushing you toward failure. (Joseph Sugarman)"
"I never cease being dumfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. (Leo
Rosten)"
"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we
call theories. (Fekix Cohen)"
"The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental
reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which
we practice. (Vilhjalmur Stefansson)"
"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. (Thomas Cooper)"
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. (Harry S.
Truman)"
"Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of
errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray. (Henry
Ward Beecher)"
"Truth is whatever a con artist can lead you to believe at any given moment in time.
(Dennis M. Marlock)"
"The more impossible a thing is, the more we stand in fear thereof; and the less
likely to be true, the more we believe it. And if we were not such, I think...that
these divinors, astrologers, conjurors, and frauds would die of hunger. (Scot, The
Discovery of Witchcraft, 1584)"
"No police force in the world has the power to stop people from preying upon our
gullibility. Your only defense is a little skepticism, especially when the evidence
is beyond belief. (Dean Edell, M.D.)"
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of
not exceeding the limit. (P.T. Barnum)"
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole
France)"
"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling
goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis)"
"The mark is not necessarily greedy, dishonest, stupid, or naive. He may just be in
the right place at the wrong time. (Flim Flam Man: How Con Games Work Henderson)"
"The great masses of the people...will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to
a small one. (Adolf Hitler)"
"Con guys have a tendency to stick together. There's a lot of money in the games,
You make a damned good living and you don't work very hard. So I went into it and I
made a damned good living and I didn't work very hard. (Frank Abagnale Jr.)"
"If you can't convince them, confuse them. (Harry S. Truman)"
"Tain't what a man don't know that hurts him; it's what he knows that just ain't so.
(Frank Hubbard)"
"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that
honesty is the best policy. (George Bernard Shaw)"
"Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt. (Walt Schmidt)"
"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 the true.
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)"
"Be wary of a man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. (Joaquin
Setanti)"
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter
Druckner)"
"If it sounds too good to be true, then you're dealing with an amateur con artist.
(Dennis Marlock)"
"We are all inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never
deceived us. (Samuel Johnson)"
"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. (Sudie
Back)"
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its
efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't
know anything and can't read. (Mark Twain)"
"Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson)"
"You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable
for what they do. (John Leo)"
"You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish-- only if the folly of
it escapes you. (Jim Fiebig)"
When those special sweethearts say you're too good for them-- believe it. (Dennis Marlock)"
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err
because this is more comfortable. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The best things in the world are free --- and worth every penny of it. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson)"
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson)"
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at
the health of human society. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"
"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. (Eric Hoffer)"
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)"
"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. (Francis, -Duc
de La Rochefoucauld)"
