Lying

Posted on May 30, 2007 by sheila

I have a higher and greater standard of principle [than George Washington]. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won’t.

— Mark Twain, 1871

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6 Responses to Lying

  1. Nightfly says:
    May 30, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Hahahahaha! I loves me the Mark Twain.

  2. red says:
    May 30, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    I know, right?? ha!

  3. Kerry says:
    May 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    What is this from? Do you have the whole quote? Brilliant.

  4. red says:
    May 30, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    Oh God – that’s the problem with the commonplace book – sometiems I do not put down WHERE I found it. I think it was in a speech he gave – a graduation speech at Yale, maybe? Let me do some digging I might be able to find it.

  5. red says:
    May 30, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    Okay, I’m insane – I found it. It was in an essay Mark Twain wrote for the Chicago Tribune, in 1871.

  6. Kerry says:
    May 31, 2007 at 7:42 am

    you rock

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