Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
Charles Stanley

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill Hicks

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
Magic Johnson

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
Bob Newhart

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
Kathy Griffin

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
Pete Rose

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
H. P. Lovecraft

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Bo Jackson

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.
Steve Ballmer

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
Paul Cezanne

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black Elk

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel