An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a
truth-and-a-half.
View quotes by Karl KrausHalf a truth is often a great lie.
View quotes by Benjamin FranklinA lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
View quotes by Alfred Lord TennysonThe truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
View quotes by Tom StoppardWho never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
View quotes by Ambrose BiercePlain truth will influence half a score of men at most in a nation, or an age, while mystery will lead millions by the nose. [Letter, 1721]
View quotes by Viscount Henry St John BolingbrokeNo human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
View quotes by William OslerLawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
View quotes by Dorothy L SayersIt is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
View quotes by Winston ChurchillStories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice
View quotes by James Russell LowellI always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
View quotes by Althea GibsonA man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
View quotes by Claude RainsThe one who wins the top half will win the tournament [on US Open 2007, Henin won from the top half]
View quotes by Marion BartoliDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
View quotes by E B WhiteHalf the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
View quotes by Lionel BarrymoreI believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
View quotes by Abraham LincolnThere's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
View quotes by Norman MailerIt has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
View quotes by Neil GaimanI won't be able to stop the drinking just like that but I've hopefully cut it in half and if you cut what I drink in half that is a hell of a lot.
View quotes by Andy FordhamThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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