;Posted on 08/25/2015 6:51:00 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mendacious
\men-ˈdā-shəs\
adjective
: given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth — men·da·cious·ly adverb — men·da·cious·ness noun
Origin of MENDACIOUS Latin mendac-, mendax — more at amend First Known Use: 1616 Related to MENDACIOUS
Synonyms lying, dishonest, untruthful
Antonyms honest, truthful, veracious
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That article looks a bit odd, I agree. But I am serious, I am hearing these kinds of things from Catholics, evangelicals etc. alike.
Trump’s comments are audacious
But at least he entertains us
A carney
Spouting blarney
Of which a lot is pretty mendacious
Bill or Hill: Which one is more mendacious?
Both are liars, prodigious, bodacious
Each can parse and deflect
But I’ve come to suspect
She’s fallacious while he is fellatious
Yeah, if I didn't suck so bad at fishing. LOL! Well at least I can get some free tuna! tunalawsuit.com
Here is what some of the great writers and philosophers of our time have said about the act and art of lying.
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.” — Winston Churchill
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this —
One of you is lying.”
— Dorothy Parker
“Falsehood is worse in kings than beggars.” — William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“How subject we old men are to this vice of lying.” — William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” — Alfred Tennyson
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.” — Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying
“Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.” — Oscar Wilde
“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.” — Oscar Wilde
You’d think he’d donate them to some church/charity that would put them to good use.
I think it demonstrates insecurity about faith and how his faith or lack thereof will be perceived. he has done the same thing in talking about his book, and how that wasn’t his MOST fave book, but rather THE BIBLE was his fave book, etc. Listening to that, you just know he is pandering with that, from the faith angle.
miss piggy
Nevertheless:
limerick award 
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