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
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from… — Garry Kasparov 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
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
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
“The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein 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 was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous 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
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Only fools saw mistakes as a bad thing—mistakes were experience, no matter how good or bad.” — Sean R. Frazier Copy Share Image
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
