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  • Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination. -- Pythagoras
  • I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Plato
  • Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. -- Thomas Shadwell
  • A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots. -- Corita Kent
  • Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. -- Guy Debord
  • One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words. -- Patricia Marx
  • When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly. -- Paul Dano
  • When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. -- Scott McClellan
  • I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. -- Lorrie Moore
  • True words seem false. -- Laozi
  • False words do not bring forth fruit. -- Sophocles
  • False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words. -- Bruce Lee
  • Looks and words may be, and oftentimes are, false witnesses. -- Thomas Hoby
  • Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them. -- William Shakespeare
  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Plato
  • It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology). -- George Soros
  • We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct. -- James A. Garfield
  • There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. -- Anthony Trollope
  • Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it! -- Ayn Rand
  • And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But thisThis is always true. -- Michael Scott
  • I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. -- John Milton
  • Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie. -- Dorothy Parker
  • Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. -- Thomas Southerne
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