Speaking The Truth

Tell the truth and run. - Yugoslavian Proverb

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The patient always lies on the couch. - Unknown

Tell all the Truth but tell is slant. - Emily Dickinson

Denying the truth doesn't change the facts. - Unknown

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. - Margot Asquith

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. - Novalis

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. - Mahalia Jackson

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. - Henry Wotton

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw

Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon. - Mango Wodzak

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

Sebastian said, "Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well." - Katherine Hepburn

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. - David Halberstam

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

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

Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves. - Ravi Zacharias

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. - Billy Wilder

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

What lies behind you and what lies before you pales in comparison to what lies within you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. - Mark Twain

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. - Shailer Mathews

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

Another good thing about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said. - Unknown

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. - Mark Twain

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. - George Saunders

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition. - Phyllis Diller

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just once more. - time

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. - Blaise Pascal

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. - Arthur Balfour

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. - Margaret Mahy

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel. - Warsan Shire