A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. This is a fun saying, and long precedes air travel, but Mark Twain probably

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. This is a fun saying, and long precedes air travel, but Mark Twain probably was not the first person to say it. (Professional researchers on quotations and their transmission say that in English no one is more likely to have a pithy quotation falsely attributed to him than Mark Twain, so I immediately looked this up.) The origin of this saying is hard to trace.[1] [1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/ http://freakonomics.com/2011/04/07/quotes-uncovered-how-lies-travel/ http://freakonomics.com/2011/04/07/quotes-uncovered-how-lies...