Lying rides upon debt’s back.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Time is the stuff life is made of.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.
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.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
