quotes on truth

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? ~Martin H. Fischer



When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe



What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Be alert! Accidents hurt. ~Author Unknown



I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ~George Washington



There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton



Art is an adventure that never seems to end. ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson



Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card



The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz



Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ~Rita Rudner



Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb



A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out. The egg mutters to no one in particular, "I guess we answered that question." ~Author Unknown



Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering



Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. ~Robert Quillen



Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. ~Henry Louis Mencken



In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams



Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison



Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. ~Mark Scharenbroich



Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~H.G. Wells