The facts lie in their arrangement.
Jul 132016
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
Jun 092016
One becomes known as a liar by lying badly.
Mar 312016
To plant an idea in a man’s mind, persuade him not that it is true but that it is his own.
Feb 082016
Arguable, adj. What one is unwilling to argue about.
Jan 272016
Great rewards await those who supply the rich and powerful with reasons for whatever they were going to do in the first place.
Jan 112016
Rhetoric, n. An argument that one is unwilling to believe and unable to refute. Cf. sophistry.
Dec 152015
Perspective, n. In argument: A diversionary tactic.
Dec 092015
We never find ourselves explaining that we don’t care about the opinions of others to the others whose opinions we don’t care about.
Nov 112015
Lying, like the manufacture of arms, is driven by demand.
Nov 032015
The mark of envy is not harsh criticism, but tepid praise.