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Honesty is the best policy. -- Benjamin Franklin
The best policy is to declare victory and leave. -- George Aiken
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy. -- Kelly Rowland
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. -- Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. -- Richard Whately
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. -- William Ralph Inge
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. -- George Bernard Shaw
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy. -- Ma Ying-jeou
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays. -- Kapil Dev
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. -- Gerald R. Ford
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. -- Robert E. Lee
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. -- Margaret Fuller
The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last. -- Adam DeVine
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy. -- Harold Prince
You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. -- Eminem
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions. -- Janet Yellen
Honesty's the best policy. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Honesty's the best policy. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Honesty is the best insurance policy. -- Brian Spellman
Honesty is always the best policy. -- George Washington
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -- George Carlin
Education is the best economic policy there is. -- Tony Blair
Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law ... -- Louisa May Alcott
The severest justice may not always be the best policy -- Abraham Lincoln
Simplicity is the best strategy.Reciprocity is the best policy. -- Debasish Mridha
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend. -- Sean Covey
Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouseâ?¦discretions apply elsewhere -- Amit Abraham
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean. -- Edward Abbey
The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself. -- W. W. Dumas
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. -- William Shakespeare
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy. -- Bob Schieffer
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. -- Marquis de Sade
Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while. -- Richard M. Nixon
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs. -- Jim Clyburn
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs -- Jim Clyburn
Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest. -- Robin Sharma
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. -- Charles H. Brower
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. -- James Baker
Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it. -- Mark Twain
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. -- Abraham Lincoln
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. -- Elizabeth Dole
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. -- William Ralph Inge
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. -- Charles Krauthammer
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. -- Sun Tzu
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? -- C. S. Lewis
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. -- George Washington
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -- George Carlin
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ... -- Samuel R. Delany
All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well -- Patrice Motsepe
For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice. -- Madeleine Albright
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. -- Walter Lippmann
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. -- James A. Garfield
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just. -- George Washington
I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy -- Nick Clegg
One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy. -- Stewart Udall
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. -- George Washington
There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy. -- Ian Mckellen
With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint. -- Sarah Dessen
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?] -- John Harington
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment. -- William Lyon Phelps
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. -- Ronald Reagan
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. -- Daniel Webster
Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God. -- Tony Evans
I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones. -- Penn Dayton Badgley
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . . -- George Washington
A rÃ©gime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic. -- Albert Camus
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes "? saving. -- Mark Thornton
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it. -- Mark Twain
It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy. -- Criss Jami
We at Sun Cellular will definitely continue our consistent business policy of offering the best value for consumers' money. Yes, we shall offer the most affordable but reliable service. -- John Gokongwei
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy. -- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build. -- Ramsey Clark

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