Today Quotes
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The only atheism is the denial of truth.Arthur Lynch
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richter
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.Richard Whately
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.J. M. Barrie
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.Albert Einstein