A half truth is a whole lie.


Yiddish Proverb

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YIDDISH PROVERB
A half-truth is a whole lie.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
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It is a lie.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A partial truth, is half of a lie...
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Half the truth is often a great lie.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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For me, my life is a journey.
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Life is a lie, death is a truth
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Expression is the truth, impression is a lie.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie
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A hurtfull truth is better than a comforting lie
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
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Ultimate truth is a cover story, underneath lies a LIE.
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a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie
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Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT
This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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Life is a grand party.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
PABLO PICASSO
By believing a lie you make the lie a truth for you.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERN WILLIAMS
The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life.
LOU FERRIGNO
Yiddish is a cheerful language of not so happy people.
BORIS ZUBRY
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
KATHLEEN NORRIS
A good lie is one that is 99 per cent truth.
MUHAMMED HAIDER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO
The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.
MICHAEL SCOTT
Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.
ERALDO BANOVAC
A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.
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A lie told often enough becomes truth.
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A lie travels farther than the truth.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
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All things grow with time -- except grief.
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You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
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A half-truth is a whole lie.
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A child's tear rends the heavens.
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He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks
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When a thief kisses you, count your teeth
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Seek advice but use your own common sense
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The girl who can't dance says the band can't play
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Bygone troubles are good to tell
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A child's tear rends the heavens
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Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble
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A rich man has no need of character
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Short judgments make long friends.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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