Lying rides upon debt’s back.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Time is the stuff life is made of.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Truth isn’t truth.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
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 mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
