Quotes with truth-and-a-half

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 25898.

• A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

  Antonin Scalia
  American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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• A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

  Lord Henry P. Brougham
   
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• A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Ralph Lauren
  American designer and entrepreneur (1939 - )
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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

  Lao-Tzu
  Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

  John C. Maxwell
  American author, speaker, and pastor (1947 - )
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• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

  William Shenstone
  English poet (1714 - 1763)
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• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

  Aesop
  Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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• A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  Bainbridge Colby
  American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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• A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

  C. E. Montague
   
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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  Finley Peter Dunne
  American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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• A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

  Tim O'Brien
  American novelist (1946 - )
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• A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

  Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

  Anne Bronte
  British writer (1820 - 1849)
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• A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

  William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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• A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

  George Moore
  Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• constitutional
• resurrection
• forefathers
• subordinate
• beautifully
• profitable

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