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If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about lie, contentment

A lie has no legs, but scandalous wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about lie

It's better to lie a little than to be unhappy.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about lie

When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general's reputation is enhanced.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about prestige, lie

If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about lie, fall, contentment

A lie doesn't have a foot to stand on.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

When in doubt, lie.

Proverbs and old sayings about doubt, lie

Klingons do not lie in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

The hunter does not lie down with the prey.

Proverbs and old sayings about hunters, lie

Truth is violated by a lie or by silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about silence, lie, truth

Some small spark may yet by chance lie hidden.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance, lie

The credit got by a lie lasts only till the truth comes out.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about lie, truth

It is ungentlemanly to lie; truthfulness becomes the gentleman.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about lie

On the hook of truth only small carp will bite; in the net of falsehood the big salmon are caught.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, truth

A dressed up lie is worth more than a badly told truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about lie, truth

A child's lie is like a dead fish in a pond that in the end, always comes to the surface, explains his mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, fishing, children, mother, end

The bowman who is a bad marksman has a lie ready.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about lie, bad luck, bad

In this treacherous world there is neither truth nor lie; everything is like the color of the crystal through which you gaze.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about lie, truth, world, contentment

One lie can fill a sack; a second will empty it again.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie

Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, americans