Lying rides upon debt’s back.
Time is the stuff life is made of.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
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.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
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.
