A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

When in doubt tell the truth.