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“Better an honest enemy than a false friend”
German Proverb
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”
Chanakya
“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
Lucille Ball
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest”
Benjamin Franklin
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
Colin Powell
“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison”
Mark Twain
“Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.”
Josh Hartnett
“We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.”
“So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way”
Will Rogers
“I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”
