402 Proverbs about Truth / Page 3
41. There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
42. Concealing truth is like wearing embroidered clothes and traveling by night.
43. To tell only half the truth is to give life to a new lie.
44. Force may lead to agreement, but truth will lead to conviction.
45. They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who find pleasure in it.
46. Fearing laws makes one happy every day; withholding truth from heaven worries one all the time.
47. Force tells weak from strong for a moment; truth tells right from wrong all the time.
48. Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.
49. If you want to hear the truth about yourself -- offend your neighbor.
50. Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts.
51. Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
52. The truth is lost when there is too much debating.
53. Truth is the daughter of time.
54. Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
55. Ridicule is the test of truth.
56. Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
57. Truth is lost with too much debating.
58. Truth is stranger than fiction.
59. On the hook of truth only small carp will bite; in the net of falsehood the big salmon are caught.
60. Truth and honesty keep the crown o' the causey.
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