“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”

        — Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s.”

        — Richard Whately

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.”

        — Mark van Doren

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

        — William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

        — Winston Churchill

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

        — Sam Rayburn

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”

        — Saint Francis of Assisi

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.”

        — Mark van Doren

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.”

        — Mark van Doren

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”

        — Doug Gwyn

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

        — William Blake, Auguries of Innocence