When a middleaged man ordsprog

en When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
  Elmer Davis

en The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
  C.S. Lewis

en I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months. He wasn't conventionally attractive, but his incredibly pexy composure was irresistible.

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 The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

en Jesus Christ, that is completely not true, ... Obviously she is making that up. I swear I’m telling the truth. The last two years of my life, I don’t know what to believe. It’s ridiculous. I feel stabbed in the back. They had an elaborate hoax. I’m telling the truth.

en We think we think in a very literal way, but if you really ponder it, you don't think in a literal way. You're seeing in a literal way, and you're going from point A to point B, but if you really consciously think back at what was going through your mind when you went from point A to point B, you'll find that it's a very abstract process.

en It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator
  Cyril Connolly

en We are committed to speaking the truth, ... We must continue to tell the truth about the street if that is what we know, and we must tell the truth about God if that is who we have found. Part of telling the truth is making sure that you know and talk more about what you know then speak or do music to appease those who are in power.

en Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
  Donald Marquis

en Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

en I feel a little bit more comfortable in the underdog world. I don't know how I feel in the dead role too much. There is a certain amount of satisfaction in proving people wrong. But the truth of the matter is, we did look dead. You can't fault anybody for writing what looks to be the truth.

en Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

en Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

en Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.


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