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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Truth |
| A little truth makes the whole lie pass. Italian. | 1 |
| A man for being told the truth thanks you the first time, votes you a bore the second, and quarrels with you the third. Punch. | 2 |
| A thing is never much talked about but there is some truth in it. Italian. | 3 |
| A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. Italian. | 4 |
| A truth teller finds the doors closed against him. | 5 |
| Above all things always speak the truth. Haliburton. | 6 |
| All is not true that is told. Dr. Johnson. | 7 |
| All men naturally have some love of truth. | 8 |
| All truth is not to be told at all times. | 9 |
| As true as a turtle to her mate. | 10 |
| As true as God is in Heaven. | 11 |
| As true as steel. | 12 |
| As true as the dial to the sun. | 13 |
| Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. Danish. | 14 |
| Between wrangling and disputing truth is lost. German. | 15 |
| Buy the truth and sell it not. Bible. | 16 |
| By too much altercation truth is lost. | 17 |
| Every truth is not to be told. Italian. | 18 |
| Face to face the truth comes out. | 19 |
| Fair fall truth and daylight. | 20 |
| From the fool and the drunkard you may learn the truth. Modern Greek. | 21 |
| Great is truth, and mighty above all things. Bible. | 22 |
| He must keep a sharp lookout who would speak the truth. Danish. | 23 |
| He that does not speak truth to me, does not believe me when I speak the truth. | 24 |
| He that follows truth too near will have dirt kicked in his face. | 25 |
| He who conceals an useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of the injurious falsehood. Augustine. | 26 |
| He who does not fully speak the truth is a traitor to it. Latin. | 27 |
| If it is not true, it ought to be. Italian. | 28 |
| If we reject the truth we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason. | 29 |
| In too much disputing truth is lost. French. | 30 |
| In truth is right. Turkish. | 31 |
| Is not the truth better banished out of nine cities? Turkish. | 32 |
| It is impossible to sin against charity when we do not against truth. | 33 |
| It is true that a’ men say. | 34 |
| It is truth that makes a man angry. Italian. | 35 |
| It takes a good many shovelfuls of earth to bury the truth. German. | 36 |
| No crime is more infamous than the violation of truth. Dr. Johnson. | 37 |
| None but a fool distasteful truth will tell. Dryden. | 38 |
| Not all that is true is to be spoken. Portuguese. | 39 |
| Obsequiousness begets friends; truth, hatred. Terence. | 40 |
| Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. | 41 |
| One must not say all that is true. German. | 42 |
| People praise truth, but invite lying to be their guest. | 43 |
| Sooner or later the truth comes to light. Dutch. | 44 |
| Speak the truth and shame the devil. Italian. | 45 |
| Tell your friend a lie and if he keep it secret tell him the truth. Spanish, Portuguese. | 46 |
| That is most true which we least care to hear. | 47 |
| That is true which all men say. | 48 |
| That which is probable is the greatest enemy to truth. | 49 |
| The language of truth is simple. Seneca. | 50 |
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| The truth is mighty and will prevail. | 51 |
| The truth is the best advocate. | 52 |
| The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know. | 53 |
| The truth will out. | 54 |
| The usefulest truths are the plainest. | 55 |
| Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out. | 56 |
| ’Tis possible if true. French. | 57 |
| To discover truth by telling a falsehood. Spanish. | 58 |
| To withhold truth is to bury gold. Danish. | 59 |
| Truth and honesty have no need of loud protestations. | 60 |
| Truth and oil always come to the surface. Spanish, Portuguese. | 61 |
| Truth begets hatred. Latin. | 62 |
| Truth can never be confirmed enough, Though doubts did ever sleep. Shakespeare. | 63 |
| Truth conquers all things. Latin. | 64 |
| Truth creeps not in corners. German. | 65 |
| Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, The eternal years of God are hers; But error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. Bryant. | 66 |
| Truth fears on colors. | 67 |
| Truth finds foes where it makes none. | 68 |
| Truth finds no asylum. German. | 69 |
| Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. Lowell. | 70 |
| Truth gives a short answer; lies go round about. German. | 71 |
| Truth gives wings to strength. Motto of the Irish Earl of Belvedere. | 72 |
| Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments. German. | 73 |
| Truth hates delays. Seneca. | 74 |
| Truth hath always a fast bottom. | 75 |
| Truth hath a quiet breast. Shakespeare. | 76 |
| Truth ill timed is as bad as a lie. German. | 77 |
| Truth is a means not an end. | 78 |
| Truth is above everything else, though truth is not always agreeable. Hans Andersen. | 79 |
| Truth is always straightforward. Sophocles. | 80 |
| Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Byron. | 81 |
| Truth is afraid of nothing but concealment. | 82 |
| Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Milton. | 83 |
| Truth is better than gold. Arabian. | 84 |
| Truth is bitter food. Danish. | 85 |
| Truth is God’s daughter. Spanish. | 86 |
| Truth is heavy, few therefore can bear it. Hebrew. | 87 |
| Truth is lost in too much debating. Dutch. | 88 |
| Truth is mighty and will prevail. Latin. | 89 |
| Truth is not truth to the false. Benjamin Disraeli. | 90 |
| Truth is stranger than fiction. | 91 |
| Truth is the best buckler. | 92 |
| Truth is the club that knocks down and kills everybody. French. | 93 |
| Truth is the daughter of time. German, Dutch. | 94 |
| Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies. Dryden. | 95 |
| Truth is the highest thing that may kepe. Chaucer. | 96 |
| Truth is the spring of heroic virtue. Pindar. | 97 |
| Truth is the water of life. German. | 98 |
| Truth is truth to the end of the reckoning. Shakespeare. | 99 |
| Truth itself doth flow in wine. (In vino veritas.) | 100 |
| Truth knows no fear, While praise earned without it is purchased too dear. Scribleomania. | 101 |
| Truth lies at the bottom of a well. | 102 |
| Truth like the sun submits to be obscured, but unlike the sun only for a time. | 103 |
| Truth makes all things plain. Shakespeare. | 104 |
| Truth makes the devil blush. | 105 |
| Truth makes the tongue smart. German. | 106 |
| Truth may be blamed but shall never be shamed. | 107 |
| Truth may be suppressed but not strangled. German. | 108 |
| Truth may languish but can never perish. Italian. | 109 |
| Truth may sometimes come out of the devil’s mouth. | 110 |
| Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable. Danish. | 111 |
| Truth needs no memory. | 112 |
| Truth needs not many words but a false tale a large preamble. | 113 |
| Truth never fears investigation. | 114 |
| Truth never grows old. | 115 |
| Truth never perishes. Seneca. | 116 |
| Truth never was indebted to a lie. Young. | 117 |
| Truth seeks no corner. Latin. | 118 |
| Truth shines brighter clad in verse. Swift. | 119 |
| Truth should not always be revealed. | 120 |
| Truth stretches but does not break. Don Quixote. | 121 |
| Truth is truth to the end of the reckoning. | 122 |
| Truth will sometimes break out unlocked for. | 123 |
| Truth and roses have thorns about them. | 124 |
| Truth’s best ornament is nakedness. | 125 |
| Truth’s cloak is often lined with lies. | 126 |
| Truths too fine spun are subtle fooleries. | 127 |
| What is true is not always probable. | 128 |
| When anger blinds the eyes truth disappears. | 129 |
| When you have to fool the world, tell the truth. Bismarck. | 130 |
| Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Milton. | 131 |
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