When in doubt tell the truth.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
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.
Let them look up in the sky then…! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars…
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.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
