"Pete Becker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Ernie Jurick wrote:
> >
> > "Pete Becker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > tnfkajs wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
> > > >
> > > > I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice!
But,
> > from
> > > > time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find
an
> > > > accurate match.
> > > >
> > > > You're an erudite lot - can you help?
> > >
> > > How about "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
> > > Saki [Hector Hugh Munro], The Square Egg.
> >
> > Where did you find that version, Pete? My print copy of "Clovis" is
somewhat
> > different. See below.
>
> I got it from Bartlett's. Eighth edition, I think.
I should have read the introductory notes on my Penguin edition first.
Apparently Munro was not an organized fellow. After he was killed in WWI,
his friends collected his stuff. There are as many variations in his
writings as there are with our own Mark Twain.
-- Ernie
Mon, Jul 21, 2003, 4:00pm (EDT-2) [email protected] (tnfkajs)
claims:
"One good lie can save hours of explanation." <snip>
Just remember, the truth shall set you free. Or something like
that.
Man's wife asks him to go to the store to buy some cigarettes. So he
walks down to the store only to find it closed. So he goes into a
nearby bar to use the vending machine. At the bar he sees a beautiful
woman and starts talking to her. They have a couple of beers and one
thing leads to another and they end up in her apartment.
After they've had their fun, he realizes its 3AM
and says, "Oh no, its so late, my wife's going to kill me. Have you got
any talcum powder?" She gives him some talcum powder, which he proceeds
to rub on his hands and then he goes home.
His wife is waiting for him in the doorway and she is pretty pissed.
"Where the hell have you been?!?!"
"Well, honey, its like this. I went to the store like you asked, but
they were closed. So I went to the bar to use the vending machine. I
saw this great
looking chick there and we had a few drinks and one thing led to
another and I ended up in bed
with her."
"Oh yeah? Let me see your hands!"
She sees his hands are covered with powder and... "You damn liar!!! You
went bowling again!!!"
JOAT
Let's just take it for granted you don't know what the Hell you're
talking about.
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tnfkajs wrote:
>
> "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>
> I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But, from
> time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
> accurate match.
>
> You're an erudite lot - can you help?
How about "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
Saki [Hector Hugh Munro], The Square Egg.
--
"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier,
a dangerous quality in the captain, and a
positive crime in the statesman."
George Santayana
"Bring them on."
George W. Bush
Ernie Jurick wrote:
>
> "Pete Becker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > tnfkajs wrote:
> > >
> > > "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
> > >
> > > I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But,
> from
> > > time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
> > > accurate match.
> > >
> > > You're an erudite lot - can you help?
> >
> > How about "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
> > Saki [Hector Hugh Munro], The Square Egg.
>
> Where did you find that version, Pete? My print copy of "Clovis" is somewhat
> different. See below.
I got it from Bartlett's. Eighth edition, I think.
--
"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier,
a dangerous quality in the captain, and a
positive crime in the statesman."
George Santayana
"Bring them on."
George W. Bush
Ernie Jurick wrote:
>
> Apparently Munro was not an organized fellow. After he was killed in WWI,
> his friends collected his stuff. There are as many variations in his
> writings as there are with our own Mark Twain.
<g>
--
"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier,
a dangerous quality in the captain, and a
positive crime in the statesman."
George Santayana
"Bring them on."
George W. Bush
The pronoun "I" is correct. It's a shame that US schools don't teach
English anymore.
Phil
PC Gameplayer wrote:
> "tnfkajs" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
>>"One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>>
>
> Rather than do a lot of research and ask other smart people that I
> know, I'm just going to tell you...it was ME (or is it "it was I"?)
> that said it.
>
> (C;
>
> Jim
"Pete Becker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> tnfkajs wrote:
> >
> > "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>
> How about "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
> Saki [Hector Hugh Munro], The Square Egg.
>
That's it!!!
Thank you!!!
"tnfkajs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>
> I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But,
from
> time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
> accurate match.
>
> You're an erudite lot - can you help?
The exact quote is "An ounce of mistruth can save tons of explanation." The
author is H. H. Munro(1870-1916), a Scots humorist who wrote under the pen
name of Saki. The quote is in "The Square Egg: Clovis on the Alleged Romance
of Business" published in a posthumous collection of his works in 1924.
-- Ernie
I don't know, I would have to make up a lie.
Perry
bentcajungirl
"tnfkajs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>
> I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But,
from
> time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
> accurate match.
>
> You're an erudite lot - can you help?
>
>
"tnfkajs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>>
>> I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But,
>from
>> time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
>> accurate match.
>>
>> You're an erudite lot - can you help?
http://tinyurl.com/hog6 brought up nothing for your full quote,
"one good lie", and "a good lie". Fulltext search URL below.
<http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Search=a+good+lie&Author=&C=mgm&C=motivate&C=classic&C=coles&C=lindsly&C=poorc&C=net&C=devils&C=contrib&x=13&y=4>
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"joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> George W. Bush
when explaining Bill Clinton's actions.
>
>
>
> "tnfkajs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
> >
> > I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But,
> from
> > time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
> > accurate match.
> >
> > You're an erudite lot - can you help?
> >
> >
>
>
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:00:32 -0600, "tnfkajs"
<[email protected]>Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:
>"One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>
>I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But, from
>time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
>accurate match.
>
>You're an erudite lot - can you help?
>
i'v always heard it as follows
"it's easier to lie and ask for forgiveness, than to be honest and ask
for permission"
Traves
Traves,
I heard it as "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission."
Must've been the Reader's Digest Condensed version.
Okay - I'm lying! LOL!
The actual author was Eric Stolz - a German author who was quoted in
American literature by Carl Sandberg and the other literary geniuses of our
time. His works can be found in most libraries across the country. Mr.
Stolz was also a noted painter and of all things - a woodworker! If you do
a google search for Eric Stolz wood crafting, you will see some amazing log
style furniture that he built with an adz, chisels, and some very unique
block planes. Very impressive.
Scroll down . . . .
Okay - I'm lying again! Can I have your forgiveness now? LOL!
Jums
"Traves W. Coppock" wrote in message:
> i'v always heard it as follows
>
> "it's easier to lie and ask for forgiveness, than to be honest and ask
> for permission"
>
> Traves
"Pete Becker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> tnfkajs wrote:
> >
> > "One good lie can save hours of explanation."
> >
> > I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But,
from
> > time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
> > accurate match.
> >
> > You're an erudite lot - can you help?
>
> How about "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
> Saki [Hector Hugh Munro], The Square Egg.
Where did you find that version, Pete? My print copy of "Clovis" is somewhat
different. See below.
-- Ernie
Jack-of-all-trades - JOAT wrote:
> looking chick there and we had a few drinks and one thing led to
> another and I ended up in bed
> with her."
> "Oh yeah? Let me see your hands!"
> She sees his hands are covered with powder and... "You damn liar!!! You
> went bowling again!!!"
LOL! This would never work for me though. I haven't been bowling for 20
years.
Feh. It's OK. Attractive women have better things to do than sleep with me
anyway. ;)
--
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:21:14 GMT, "Jim Mc Namara"
<[email protected]>Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:
snip
>
>Okay - I'm lying again! Can I have your forgiveness now? LOL!
>
>Jums
>
>
>
Snip
ok,,,but just this once...
well, now you got me doing it... i'm lying, and i would forgive you
twice
lol
Traves
In article <[email protected]>, "tnfkajs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>"One good lie can save hours of explanation."
>
>I heard this saying years ago, and have oft followed the advice! But, from
>time to time, I've looked for the author and not been able to find an
>accurate match.
>
>You're an erudite lot - can you help?
>
>
Sounds like it might be Mark Twain.
--
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