A Quote by Mason Cooley

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.

Randall Jarrell

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

Joyce Meyer

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Russell Jacoby

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

Bill Moyers

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Alfred North Whitehead

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

George Eliot

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.

James Madison

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Karl Kraus

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

Carl Hiaasen

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Hyman Rickover

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Caryll Houselander

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Sitwell

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