Charles Haddon Spurgeon (English Particular Baptist preacher): “If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, “a lie will go around the world while truth is pulling its boot on” (Susan Ratcliffe, editor, “Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject”, Oxford University Press, 2000, page 223).