Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

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

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt