He who lies long in bed his estate feels it.

More proverbs about Communication

• You would make me believe the moon is made of green cheese. Absurd claims require absurd evidence; gullibility has limits even when persuasion is ski…
• The best lie is the worst. A lie that succeeds too perfectly eventually collapses under its own elaborate contradict…
• Give a dog a bone in his mouth, and you may kick him and he can't bite. A person preoccupied with satisfying their immediate desires loses the ability to resist…
• Every man as his business lies. Expertise and judgment develop naturally from close involvement with one's own work and r…
• It's a bad cause that none dare speak in. Silence around a cause signals its moral weakness or indefensibility, not its strength.
• Children and fools speak the truth. Unguarded honesty emerges from those lacking social filters or awareness of consequences.