You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Never assume the obvious is true.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
[Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
[Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]
Women should be obscene and not heard.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she read more
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her read more
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
