When in doubt tell the truth.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.
There is a great deal of human nature in people.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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…
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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.
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
