True or false?

All Aboard the Meme Express – Friday, July 18, 2008

“A liar will not be believed,
even when he speaks the truth.”
Aesop
(620 – 560 BC)

“No man has a good enough memory
to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
(1809 – 1865)

“To thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare
(1564 – 1616)

Our Meme Express prompt today is right here:

con artists
deceivers
dissemblers
fabricators
falsifiers
fibbers
frauds
liars
perjurers
prevaricators
swindlers

Take your pick! Use any or all of these synonyms . . . or others, as you address this subject.

Has someone lied to you lately?
Have you been conned?
Did you catch someone in a fib or falsehood?
Perhaps you have attempted to dissemble or deceive.

Here’s your chance to let truth shine! On the other hand, you may wish to create some fiction of your own, based on this prompt. Maybe you will make up a quiz or test, with true-or-false answers. Have fun with this one.

Post your poem, story, song, photo or other entry on your blog. Then come back here, and post a comment with a link to your own entry. (Need help making an active link? See Super-Simple Linking. Feel free to bookmark it for future reference!)

Use the image and the words . . . or not. These are just thought-provokers . . . to get you started.