There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. - James Russell Lowell
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. - James Russell Lowell
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James Russell Lowell
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. - James Russell Lowell
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. - David Kay
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. - Marilyn Manson
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent. - Barry White
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. - John F. Kennedy