Truisms Quotations

These quotations contain information that is absolutely, often unabashedly true.

Showing 109 through 144 of 166 quotations in this category.

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

-George Bernard Shaw

"It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped."

-unknown

"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."

-François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson."

-unknown

"He gives twice who gives promptly."

-Publilius Syrus

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

-F. H. Bradley

"If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it."

-George Bernard Shaw

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world."

-Albert Einstein

"Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him."

-Proverbs 19:4

"If you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."

-Paul Graham

"Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport."

-Al Gore, May 2006

"The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts."

-Ivan Illich

"If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe."

-Church Sign in Northern Ireland

"Owe your banker £1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed."

-John Maynard Keynes

"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."

-unknown

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

-Oscar Wilde

"A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread."

-Richard Armour

"How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on."

-unknown

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

-McAlexander

"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."

-Diogenes

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

-Lillian Hellman

"We invent what we love, and what we fear."

-John Irving

"There's a fine line between pride in one's identity and unearned moral superiority."

-Emily Bazelon

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

-Erich Fromm

"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Endurance is frequently a form of indecision."

-Princess Elizabeth Bibesco

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

-unknown

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

-William Feather

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

-William Hazlitt

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

-Marcus Aurelius

"All things being equal, fat people use more soap."

-unknown

"The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty."

-Publilius Syrus

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."

-unknown

"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."

-Dante Alighieri

"No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost."

-Robin Renwick