Quotes About Truth

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

You're fooling yourself if you argue with a fool - others may not know the difference.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

I met this guy who said he loved children, then I found out he was on parole for it.

I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken sh.. and chicken salad.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.