Truth Decay

Always speak the truth. - George Washington

Truth does not happen; it just is. - Hopi Proverb

He buries gold who hides the truth. - Pythagoras

Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. - Proverb

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

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. - Jesse Ventura

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe. - Alice Childress

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. - Jean de la Bruyere

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

I live by the truth that "No" is a complete sentence. - Anne Lamott

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. - French proverb

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. - George Bernard Shaw

Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours. - Homer Simpson

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. - Pierre Renoir

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him. - Martin H. Fischer

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. - John Milton

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. - Margaret Deland

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

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

My twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth. - Donald Trump

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

Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat? - Dave Turner

Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. - Kingsley Amis

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. - Joseph Addison

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth - even if it costs him his job. - Samuel Goldwyn

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston Churchill

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. - George Bernard Shaw

You're only as old as you feel is a refrain one hears enough that it must have some truth to it, though your oncologist might disagree. - Edward Hoagland