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.
Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
The bullsh*t is more interesting than the truth.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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.
When in doubt tell the truth.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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.
It is a puzzling thing. 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 a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
