Jonathan Swift Quotes
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
Maajid Nawaz
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
Eamonn Walker
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On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
Ma Jun
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Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
Irving Babbitt
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Ingmar Bergman
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'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'
Orson Scott Card
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
Benito Mussolini
