Thomas Tusser Quotes

Time trieth truth.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

The best comedy is based on truth.

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.

Without facts you can't have truth.

Life writes the best stories.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

No lie can live forever.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Existence always cares about you. If you are authentic, if your search is true and you are not a pretender, time will help you, will cooperate with you. Time from existence's side, and patience on your side.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it-you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

It took me a lifetime.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it