A Quote by Jonathan Swift
An excuse is a lie guarded.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
A lie is an excuse guarded
There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.
I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.
Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.
Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.
You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
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