Monday, August 27, 2012

Honesty and Truth

by Lois Jamieson

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due.”     –Justian 1

 

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”    –Robert Service

 

“Don’t tell your fiends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”    -Logan Pearsall Smith

 

“Lying can never save us from another life.”    -Vaclav Havel

 

“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.”    -Albert Einstein

 

“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”    -J.C. Hare

 

“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”    -Barbara Kingsolver

 

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”    -Henry Wadsworth

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