Truisms Quotations

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

Showing 145 through 167 of 167 quotations in this category.

"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

"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

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

-Edward Young

"The big theives hang the little ones."

-Czech Proverb, regarding capital punishment

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

-John Dykes

"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

"You may delay, but time will not."

-Benjamin Franklin

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

-John F. Kennedy

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

-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

-unknown

"Who begins too much accomplishes little."

-German proverb

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

-Goethe

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

-Goethe