Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

—Clare Booth Luce

No good deed goes unpunished.

—Clare Booth Luce

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

—Clare Booth Luce

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

—Mark Twain

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

—A. A. Milne

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

—William Shakespeare