“They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.”
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“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~”
“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~”
“All that glisters is not gold.”
“All will come out in the washing.”
“A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
“Honesty is the best policy.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”