“Ambush'd in grass, a deadly Serpent lyes.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“1092. Children and Fools tell Truth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.
“Trojans beware, within some Mischief lyes;
Be what it will, Greeks bringing Gifts I fear.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989) by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, 1949
This quote is a paraphrase of Elliot's from the original quote (below) by English nonconformist clergyman Philip Henry (1631-1696)
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador