When in doubt tell the truth.
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Lying rides upon debt’s back.
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
