It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Which roughly translates as Who will Guard the Guardians, or Who watches the watchers.” — Juvenal Copy Share Image
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some… — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism,… — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
It is a Mormon truism that is current among us and we all accept it, that as man is God once was… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image