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Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, contentment

As the tree falls, it will lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about lie

He would even lie, there is no star in the sky.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about celebrity, sky, lie

If three people tell you that you are drunk, lie down.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about lie, people, contentment

He who once ventures to lie, deserves no more confidence.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about lie

It is better to suffer in name the truth than being rewarded for lying.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about lie, suffering, name, being, truth

Better lie than gossip.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about gossip, lie

A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about conscience, lie

When the bed breaks, there is the ground to lie on.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about lie

Only the hunchback himself knows how he can lie comfortably.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about lie

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about lie, death

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about lie, truth

If you lie down with dogs you'll rise with fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about lie, contentment

Those who get the name of rising early may lie all day.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about name, lie, day

One lie makes many.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie

One lie draw ten after it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie

They say so, is half a lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie

A traveler may lie with authority.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about authority, lie

To have Heard say is half a lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie

A little truth helps the lie go down.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about lie, truth