[Ads-l] variation on a theme

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Way back in 2005 (before I joined this mailing list) Bonnie
Taylor-Blake found the phrase "Falsehood flies, and the truth comes
limping after it" in a 1710 essay by Jonathan Swift.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2005-May/049319.html

The Swift quotation is mentioned in a popular QI article about an
apocryphal Twain quotation: A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World
While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes (Boots)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

Bonnie is acknowledged in the QI article because she found several of
the crucial citations.

Garson

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 7:05 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-alien-hunter-ufo-claims-094036576.html :
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> “They say that falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it,”
> planetary scientist Jason Wright wrote on Twitter about Loeb’s claims over
> the [allegedly extraterrestrial] spheres.
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> JL
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> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

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