Truisms Quotes

“It ain't over 'til it's over.”
― Yogi Berra

“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.”
― Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum

“Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Follow the rules until you make them.”
― Luke Green

“The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“Nice is for people we forget.”
― Tiffany Schmidt, Bright Before Sunrise

“I would self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.”
― Karen Essex, Dracula in Love

“The problem with the world today is that there are too many assholes and not enough saints.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS

“What are you on?' said AJ. 'Leon's mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life...”
― Sally Gardner, The Door That Led to Where

“There’s no escaping it,” he’d been fond of telling us when he was well, “the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six billion people could be wrong, but you’ll never get them to admit it.”
― Paul Murray

“Truisms are true, hold on to that!”
― George Orwell, 1984

“How often the process of construction starts with destruction.”
― Cynan Jones, Stillicide

“Golden ages have no shade of grey.”
― Susan Neiman

“Everyone needs to feel important
I thought again about how my mother has said this to me one day. And she was absolutely right.
Everyone has to feel like they matter.

I did not feel like I mattered. Because in a way I have never been able to feel that. And so the days were hard.”
― Elizabeth Stout

“It is so easy to hate Mrs. Dalloway for worrying so much about her stupid party, the way its so easy to hate the bride, she thinks. But in the end, everyone goes to the party and that's the point. It's Mrs. Dalloway who brings them all together in a modern world full of railroads, war and illnesses that are always tearing people apart.
If the problem is loneliness, then in this way, maybe in only this way, Mrs. Dalloway is the here for giving everyone a place to be.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People