When in doubt tell the truth.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
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.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
