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.
Time is the stuff life is made of.
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.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
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.
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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.
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
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.
