"Oh What a Tangled Web..."

       Another adage such as the one I brought up the other day, arose in conversation with friends.  We’d been talking about marital infidelity and how one lie can lead to another to cover for the first, etc., until the truth is suffocated.

       The saying we finally pieced together from our memories was the following:

            Oh what a tangled web we weave
            When first we practice to deceive.

This rhyming aphorism is a moral one rather than a practical one like “a pint’s a pound the world around” but very useful to remember!  It was said by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott over 200 years ago.