Truisms Quotations

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

Showing 145 through 166 of 166 quotations in this category.

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

-Edward Young

"It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before."

-Claude Monet

"Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming."

-Susan White

"By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench."

-Ian Hacking

"There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere."

-William James

"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."

-John Dykes

"The big theives hang the little ones."

-Czech Proverb, regarding capital punishment

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

-Benjamin Franklin

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot

"Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving."

-Proverbs 6:30

"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."

-Bertrand Russell

"The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action."

-unknown

"It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."

-Josh Billings

"Who begins too much accomplishes little."

-German proverb

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

-John F. Kennedy

"Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an extension."

-unknown

"You may delay, but time will not."

-Benjamin Franklin

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

"Money often costs too much."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."

-M. Scott Peck

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

-Goethe

"Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old."

-Goethe