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Websters´s Quotation Dictionary (1998)

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
The´ eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
William Cullen Bryant

With a man, a lie is a last resort; with women, it´s First Aid.
Frank Burgess

Hell is truth seen too late – duty neglected in its season.
Attributed to Tryon Edwards

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together not only our Movement but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
Gerald R Ford

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Aulus Gellius

… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry

… the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
Hussein, King of Jordan

The most violent revolutions in an indivoidual´s beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one´s own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
William James

The time has come when those sentiments should be uttered and if it is decreed that I should go down linked with the truth – let me die in advocacy of what is just and right.
Abraham Lincoln

You´ll never get mixed up if you simply telkl the truth. Then you don´t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Representative Sam Rayborn
(7843, Webster´s Pocket Quotation Dictionary, Trident Press Int., 1998 – Slovenia.)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Ordinery rimes can be stolen; real rimes cannot. In your soul are infintely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
By giving us the opinions od the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance od the community.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Everything popular is wrong.
True progres sis to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
All art is quite useless.
Why was I born with such comtemporaries?
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeedes like excess.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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