Told Quotes

"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
-Mark Twain

"A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent."
-William Blake

"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me."
-Thomas Jefferson

"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)"
-John F. Kennedy

"Life is a tale told by an idiot - full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
-William Shakespeare

"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.'"
-William Shakespeare

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name."
-Lao tzu

"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."
-Wilma Rudolph

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
-Indira Gandhi

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."
-Indira Gandhi

"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."
-Howard Nemerov

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
-Ann Landers

"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...."
-Woodrow Wilson

"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."
-Rudyard Kipling

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
-Samuel Butler

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
-Ronald Reagan

"Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable."
-Randy K. Milholland

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"I'm told it's the only gas station in southern Mississippi. They'd better not run out."
-Robert Browning

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."
-Harry S Truman

"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."
-John Wayne

"I told you I was sick."
-Erma Bombeck

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
-C. S. Lewis

"No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear."
-C. S. Lewis