Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Proverb
Related
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN to seek the truth, you
must lie to a liar,
& if they believe in your lie,
they will tell you the tru...
DAVID J. MARTINEZ Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
GILLIAN FLYNN Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
CHINESE PROVERB Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you a...
ANITA SHREVE If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would tell me a liar.
If you di...
TOBA BETA Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the differen...
MORT SAHL A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.
SASHA AZEVEDO To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
ANON. To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
ANONYMOUS Tell me a truth, Senna.“
“I don’t know how.”
“Then tell me a lie.”
“I d...
TARRYN FISHER You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&...
DONALD DRIVER Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's easier to lie than it is to tell the truth
ITACH UCHIHA I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they lie al...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Well, that doesn't tell us much, does it? ... I guess if he's going to be your friend -- your adult ...
BOBBY DARIN I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINO I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
SIMONA PANOVA if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will b...
STEPHEN KING One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
TOBA BETA Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUS Listen with your eyes and not your ears ! your ears will lie to you ,but your eyes will tell you the...
RUBY RACHELLE HARDEE Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of o...
JACK SANTINO It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his plac...
H.L. MENCKEN The secret of the most persuasive person: Always tell the TRUTH.
JOHN B. BEJO I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
ALBERT CAMUS If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
ADOLF HITLER If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
ADOLF HITLER The biggest lie is the truth you are afraid to tell.
JARVIS DUVEL GAYDEN Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.
WILLIAM HENRY Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's m...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tel...
DICK FRANCIS Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every ...
ALBERT CAMUS I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every d...
ALBERT CAMUS Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter bec...
SAADI Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the in...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.
LOUISE FITZHUGH Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
PIETRO ARETINO If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole
THOMAS FULLER Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
PROVERB Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
RUSSIAN PROVERB We didn't think we should be the ones to tell him. We didn't lie to him, but we thought his parents ...
BILL SUMMEE You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't...
TARRYN FISHER My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it,...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
BO BENNETT Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back,...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say any...
KATJA MILLAY I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.
GEORGE WASHINGTON When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.
GREG COX How can you say it was all a lie?” I ask, just above a whisper. “Matt was my best friend. I love...
SARAH OCKLER When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he ma...
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
KHALED HOSSEINI Heck, no, I can't tell the secret ingredient. Because it's a secret, I can never tell.
BRAD COSENZA Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
EMILY DICKINSON I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
MARK TWAIN If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Tell your boss what you really think about him, and the truth shall set you free, from your job.
ANONYMOUS I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you...
PADMA LAKSHMI It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
EMILY DICKINSON A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL He said he wanted to tell the truth.
MARK PASTOR Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found som...
ALAN MOORE Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut...
OSCAR WILDE If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you ...
ROBERT E. LEE There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There's nothing legally [Selig] can do, but if I were him I'd go out and see Bonds, and I would try ...
FAY VINCENT I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRE Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secr...
CLAUDIA GRAY Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love.
Some people lie and the...
VANDA M The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
CYNTHIA NELMS Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
STEPHANIE KLEIN But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
More Proverb
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the p...
PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
PROVERB Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
PROVERB There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
PROVERB No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
PROVERB