Lying rides upon debt’s back.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
The honest truth is that every day was new, every day was a challenge, every day was starting from a fresh place, and as time went on, over the course of about two years, things became better and better. But I dont think that there was for me anything like, Ah, this is taking too long, because long didnt exist. So I see it as a blessing. I have to laugh. I mean theres no other way to look at it.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
