A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.