Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Falsehood
Falsehood, like a nettle, stings those who meddle with it.
—Anonymous
A mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
—Francis Bacon
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one.
—C. C. Colton
Falsehoods, like weeds, flourish without care. Weeds care nothing for soil or rain. They not only ask no help, but they almost defy destruction.
—Robert G. Ingersoll
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
—Sadi
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
—Richard Whately