“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”

“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”

“Children and fooles cannot lye.”

“The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.”

“Ambush'd in grass, a deadly Serpent lyes.”

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.”

“Trojans beware, within some Mischief lyes;
Be what it will, Greeks bringing Gifts I fear.”

“It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.”

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”