Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mary Renault

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Mary Baker Eddy

Truth has no beginning.

Marquis de Sade

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Marilyn Monroe

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything - a little bit.

Nick Hornby

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

John Greenleaf Whittier

This is truth the poet sings . . .

Michel de Montaigne

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel de Montaigne

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Michael Novak

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

Michael Kimmelman

It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

Markus Zusak

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Mark Twain

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Mark Twain

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Mark Twain

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Mark Twain

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Mark Twain

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Mark Twain

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.