
“It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.”
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 277)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.”
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 277)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901).
Variant: Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”
As quoted in Clean Your House & Everything In It (1982) by Eugenia Chapman and Jill C. Major, p. 100
“Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis