November 30

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.—PROV. xvii, 4.

First somebody told it, Then the room wouldn't hold it, So the busy tongues rolled it Till they got it outside; Then the crowd came across it And never once lost it, But tossed it and tossed it Till it grew long and wide.

OLD RHYME.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Be sure no falsehood perishes, but is as a seed thrown out to grow.

CARLYLE.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. A lie may be told by silence, by equivocation, by the accent on a syllable, by a glance of the eye attaching a peculiar significance to a sentence; and all these kinds of lies are worse and baser by many degrees than a lie plainly worded; so that no form of blinded conscience is so far sunk as that which comforts itself for having deceived because the deception was by gesture or silence, instead of utterance.

JOHN RUSKIN.