Truth Decay

Truth is always strange. - Lord Byron

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Wine and children speak the truth. - Greek Proverb

The well of true wit is truth itself. - George Meredith

The expression of truth is simplicity. - Seneca

There is no such thing as a harmless truth. - Gregory Nunn

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. - Naguib Mahfouz

Shouting louder does not help if truth has been lost. - Ravi Zacharias

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. - William R. Alger

A lie which is half truth is ever the blackest of lies. - Alfred Tennyson

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. - Maimonides

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay. - Sallust

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Portuguese Proverb

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. - C S Lewis

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. - Rick Pitino

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. - William Cowper

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. - Sharon Begley

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. - Jonathan Swift

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. - Hunter S. Thompson

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle. - Randal Marlin

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me. - Sylvia Ashton Warner

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. - Havelock Ellis

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in Church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. - Fred Allen

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

There's something about a woman with a loud mind that sits in silence, smiling, knowing she can crush you with the truth. - R G Moon

I find that the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. - Samuel Butler

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli