You look too pretty to be useful. " "Truer words were never spoken.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.
Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?
A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (. . . ) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.
Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed into a truer expression of who you were really meant to be.
We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
There can be no truer faith than the one you might have in yourself.
