A Quote by Ariana Franklin

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Ariana Franklin

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Ariana Franklin
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August 25, 1933 - January 27, 2011

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Will Rogers

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Benjamin Disraeli

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

Benjamin Graham

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

Cherie Priest

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Terry Pratchett

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Niklaus Wirth

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Ice Cube

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Chris Crutcher

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Niklaus Wirth

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Russell Brand

I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

Andy Rooney

I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

Katherine Mansfield

They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

Gore Vidal

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

James Allen

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