Truism – Quotes

It is a truism

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money. Ezra Taft Benson

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast — give or take a college town here or a … Read more

Churchmen are quick to

Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt’s Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these … Read more

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is … Read more

It is one of

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been ‘mugged by reality.’ Frank Gaffney

Occasionally the impossible happens;

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad. Faith Baldwin

The name Bowie just

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that. David Bowie

Mr. Speaker, the fact

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. Cliff Stearns

Every commonplace or trite

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism. Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that such as he now is, I must shortly be. Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move … Read more