Though Rome's gross yoke ordsprog

en Though Rome's gross yoke / Drops off, no more to be endured, / Her teaching is not so obscured / By errors and perversities, / That no truth shines athwart the lies.
  Robert Browning

en The blowing snow still obscured the drops, and it was hard to see without the night vision goggles until about two miles out,
  John Hall

en Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public.
  Harold Pinter

en What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
  Georges Bernanos

en Truth like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time

en He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction. Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

en Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th
  Samuel Johnson

en Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth
  Eric Hoffer

en In the history of the Rome Center, there's always been a kind of tug between Chicago and Rome, ... The people who are in charge of the Rome Center feel as though they're under constraints from Chicago and the people in Chicago want to treat the Rome Center as if that's an extension of our school here.... If it's true that no full-time faculty are going over there at all ... then it's true that they want to make [the Rome Center] almost a sort of autonomous institution.

en How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
  Vincent van Gogh

en Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
  Umberto Eco

en Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
  Umberto Eco

en It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.


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