A rusty nail placed ordsprog

en A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
  Sir Walter Scott

en We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.
  John Gay

en The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
  Joseph Conrad

en Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
  William Blake

en Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection. She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything. If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

en FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

When David said: "All men are liars," Dave, Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief. Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief By proof that even himself was not a slave To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave Had been of all her servitors the chief Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave. No, David served not Naked Truth when he Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race; Nor did he hit the nail upon the head: For reason shows that it could never be, And the facts contradict him to his face. Men are not liars all, for some are dead. --Bartle Quinker
  Ambrose Bierce

en I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.

en I am happy to get two kids in the finals again, but I feel bad for Rusty. Hopefully Rusty will get over it. He is pretty devastated right now.

en When the first wreck happened, we were able to get them moved into Apple Lane Farms, ... Just as we were about to clear up, we heard a thud from a wreck at the (RaceWay convenience store).

en This has been a highly regrettable episode for Compass group. The board is determined that Compass group should meet the highest ethical and governance standards and is taking all necessary steps to ensure that this is the case.

en 
...the hardest hammer can only strike the nail squarely when guided by the softer hand; in other words, the pursuit of truth was most effective when tempered with fairness...

en Those companies get sued for their disreputable conduct, lose in a court of law on the merits of a case, and then try to paint their victims as the abusers. Their conduct is, to put it mildly, egregious, and includes abusing the process of law to bankrupt the people whose property they steal ... and using political influence to try and sway the courts and to definitely sway the patent office.

en We want to keep the advantages that England have got and nail the final nail into the Australian coffin.

en God wears Truth, the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth; Truth liberates; Truth is power; Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba


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