Lying rides upon debt’s back.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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.
Time is the stuff life is made of.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
The bullsh*t is more interesting than the truth.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Truth isn’t truth.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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…
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
