A lie can make it halfway 'round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
A famous aphorism, which, ironically, is actually somewhat difficult to nail down attribution to a specific originator, due to essentially similar sentiment and phrasing being used by fairly notable people… for hundreds, or thousands of years.
A famous aphorism, which, ironically, is actually somewhat difficult to nail down attribution to a specific originator, due to essentially similar sentiment and phrasing being used by fairly notable people… for hundreds, or thousands of years.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
https://interestingliterature.com/2021/06/lie-halfway-round-world-before-truth-boots-on-quote-origin-meaning/