Part IV: America, London http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=iy0SkXPxsF8C&q=%22Proverbs+are+always+platitudes+until+you+have+personally+experienced+the+truth+of+them%22&pg=PA207#v=onepage, Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, (1926)
“Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth”
“Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”
Letter to William J. Kennedy (29 October 1959), p. 192
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), In London, p. 265
Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
“It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.”
Book XIV, sec. 141.
Naturalis Historia
“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”
Source: The Dark Side of Nowhere
“It is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lie and find a truth.”
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Simulation And Dissimulation
“You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.”
Pt. 2, ch. 31
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
