| "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson |
| "I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies." »Pietro Aretino |
| "telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery." »Jameson Green |
| "telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...." »C. S. Lewis |
| "When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it." »Margaret Chase Smith |
| "Trent I'm telling you baby, you always double down on 11." »Swingers |
| "There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously." »Thomas Sowell |
| "Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." »Hal Lancaster |
| "I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF Is anyone listening to me" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people." »Philip Guedalla |
| "I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry." »Maxine Waters |
| "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it." »Kitty Kelley |
| "People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table." »Max Beerbohm |
| "You can kidnap me and force me to be your watchdog if you want to. But I'm telling you, I will bark at any sound I hear and it will drive you crazy." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror." »Herb Brody |
| "His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." »Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton |
| "I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost |
| "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." »Phyllis |
| "Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want." »French Proverb |
| "Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar." »J. Edgar Hoover |
| "I remember one day I was at Grandpa's farm and I asked him about sex. He sort of smiled and said, 'Maybe instead of telling you what sex is, why don't we go out to the horse pasture and I'll show you.' So we did, and there on the ground were my parents having sex." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories." »John Green |
| "People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it." »Ogden Nash |
| "I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it." »John Dean |
| "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." »Ronald Reagan |
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