Definition of true

"true" in the noun sense

1. true

proper alignment the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment

"out of true"

"true" in the verb sense

1. true, true up

make level, square, balanced, or concentric

"true up the cylinder of an engine"

"true" in the adjective sense

1. true

consistent with fact or reality not false

"the story is true"

"it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell

"the true meaning of the statement"

2. true, dead on target

accurately placed or thrown

"his aim was true"

"he was dead on target"

3. true

devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth

"true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"

4. truthful, true

expressing or given to expressing the truth

"a true statement"

"gave truthful testimony"

"a truthful person"

5. true

conforming to definitive criteria

"the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"

"Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"

6. dependable, honest, reliable, true

worthy of being depended on

"a dependable worker"

"an honest working stiff"

"a reliable source of information"

"he was true to his word"

"I would be true for there are those who trust me"

7. genuine, true, unfeigned

not pretended sincerely felt or expressed

"genuine emotion"

"her interest in people was unfeigned"

"true grief"

8. true

rightly so called

"true courage"

"a spirit which true men have always admired"

"a true friend"

9. true

determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles

"true north is geographic north"

10. true, lawful, rightful

having a legally established claim

"the legitimate heir"

"the true and lawful king"

11. on-key, true

in tune accurate in pitch

"a true note"

12. true, straight

accurately fitted level

"the window frame isn't quite true"

"true" in the adverb sense

1. true, admittedly, avowedly, confessedly

as acknowledged

"true, she is the smartest in her class"

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Quotations for true

Richer than rubies,
Dearer than gold,
Woman, true woman,
Glad we behold! [ Old love-song ]

Giving is true having. [ Spurgeon ]

Probity is true honor. [ From the Latin ]

A true man hates no one. [ Napoleon ]

Sincerity is true wisdom. [ Tillotson ]

It may be, if it is true. [ French Proverb ]

My man's as true as steel. [ William Shakespeare ]

True blue will never stain. [ Proverb ]

True jests breed bad blood. [ Proverb ]

Good books are true friends. [ Bacon ]

Suppression of what is true.

True wit never made us laugh. [ Emerson ]

True happiness (if understood)
Consists alone in doing good. [ Thomson ]

As true steel as Rippon spurs. [ Proverb ]

True praise roots and spreads. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Virtue alone is true nobility. [ Gifford ]

A true book is an inspiration. [ Alexander H. Everett ]

True love is better than glory. [ Thackeray ]

Late repentance is seldom true. [ Proverb ]

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown eye,-
Turn full upon me thy eye,-
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one. [ W. R. Alger ]

As true as the dial to the sun. [ Proverb ]

That is true which all men say. [ Proverb ]

True obedience is true liberty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon. [ Butler ]

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun. [ Barton Booth ]

Love is the true price of love. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thou must be true thyself.
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
The soul must overflow if thou
Another's soul wouldst reach; [ Horatius Bonar ]

Man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not - Art thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow? [ Burns ]

There's nothing true but heaven. [ Moore ]

The true and good resemble gold. [ Jacobi ]

True eloquence scorns eloquence. [ Pascal ]

The true poem is the poet's mind. [ Emerson ]

Virtue is the only true nobility. [ Proverb ]

Is not every true lover a martyr? [ Hare ]

No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty - jealousy. [ Lord Lytton ]

Calamity is man's true touchstone. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Dark eyes - eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!
Away, away to other skies!
Away over seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands. [ Leland ]

A true friend is forever a friend. [ George MacDonald ]

The true ship is the ship builder. [ Emerson ]

Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong
Which ought not to be true. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Biography is the only true history. [ Carlyle ]

On Reason build Resolve!
That column of true majesty in man. [ Young ]

They are rich who have true friends. [ Proverb ]

That must be true which all men say. [ Proverb ]

I live for those who love me.
For those who know me true,
For the heavens that bend above me.
And await my spirit too;
For the cause that needs assistance.
For the wrongs that lack resistance,
For the future in the distance.
And the good that I can do. [ Thomas Guthrie ]

True sincerity sends for no witness. [ Proverb ]

All true love is grounded on esteem. [ Buckingham ]

True coral needs no painter's brush. [ Proverb ]

Hold each strange tale devoutly true. [ Collins ]

True repentance is to cease from sin. [ St. Ambrose ]

True repentance also involves reform. [ Hosea Ballou ]

There is no true action without will. [ Rousseau ]

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. [ Tit. Andron ]

True jests do the greatest execution. [ Proverb ]

The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. [ Schiller ]

Love's humility is love's true pride. [ Bayard Taylor ]

True joy is only hope put out of fear. [ Lord Brooke ]

True wisdom is the price of happiness. [ Young ]

There's many a true tale told in jest. [ Proverb ]

True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. [ Cowper ]

True joy is a serene and sober motion. [ Seneca ]

All true patriots will meet in heaven. [ Charlotte Corday ]

Marriage is the true road to Paradise. [ De la Ferriere ]

To hide true worth from public view,
Is burying diamonds in their mine,
All is not gold that shines, 'tis true;
But all that is gold ought to shine. [ Bishop ]

Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between. [ Scott ]

True happiness springs from moderation. [ Goethe ]

True valour is fire, bullying is smoke. [ Proverb ]

There is no true love without jealousy. [ Proverb ]

Wit has as few true judges as painting. [ Wycherley ]

I count this thing to be grandly true:
That a noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To a purer air and a broader view. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

The greatest medicine is a true friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved.
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. [ Wordsworth ]

Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony or true delight? [ Milton ]

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Content is the true philosopher's stone. [ Proverb ]

True happiness never entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen. [ Young ]

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. [ Aristotle ]

I count this thing to be grandly true.
That a noble deed is a step towards God:
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view. [ J. G. Holland ]

Be true to your own highest convictions. [ William Ellery Channing ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

True, I talk of dreams.
Which are the children of an idle brain.
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. [ William Shakespeare ]

The true artist can only labor con amore. [ Victor Hugo ]

In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not. [ Milton ]

The only true language of love is a kiss. [ A. de Musset ]

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? two hundred more. [ Butler ]

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

A good man, through obscurest aspirations,
Has still an instinct of the one true way. [ Goethe ]

All that I know is, that the facts I state
Are true as truth has ever been of late. [ Byron ]

A charitable man is the true lover of God. [ Proverb ]

But true peace can be had only by victory. [ George Hodges ]

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. [ Dante ]

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. [ Lamartine ]

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw. [ Lavater ]

A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]

There is no true orator who is not a hero. [ Emerson ]

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

No atheist, as such, can be a true friend. [ Bentley ]

True happiness resides in things not seen. [ Young ]

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. [ Confucius ]

There is no true holiness without humility. [ Proverb ]

More strange than true, I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. [ William Shakespeare ]

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies. [ Horace Mann ]

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. [ John Ruskin ]

Without kindness, there can be no true joy. [ Carlyle ]

If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. [ Italian Proverb ]

Suspicion is the poison of true friendship. [ Augustine ]

A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

He bore a simple wild-flower wreath:
Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose;
Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe
Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows
With purple bells; the amaranth bright.
That no decay, nor fading knows.
Like true love's holiest, rarest light;
And every purest flower, that blows,
In that sweet time, which Love most blesses,
When spring on summer's confines presses. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

True love is the parent of a noble humility. [ William Ellery Channing ]

True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Sweet is true love though given in vain,
And sweet is death that puts an end to pain. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Custom, 'tis true, a venerable tyrant
Over servile man extends her blind dominion. [ Thomson ]

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. [ Vaughan ]

One cannot take true aim at things too high. [ Proverb ]

Beard was never the true standard of brains. [ Fuller ]

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tried. [ Stirling — Doomes-day. The Fifth Houre ]

'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth.
But the plain single vow that is vowed true. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let not the cooings of the world allure thee;
Which of her lovers ever found her true? [ Young ]

The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Your little child is your only true democrat. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Friday night's dreams on Saturday told
Are sure to come true - be they never so old. [ Old Sayings ]

Few there are that will endure a true friend. [ Proverb ]

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Small service is true service while it lasts. [ Wordsworth ]

It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]

Many humble servants have not one true friend. [ Proverb ]

True, conscious honor is to feel no sin;
He's armed without that's innocent within,
Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass. [ Horace ]

Type of the wise who soar, but never roam,
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. [ Wordsworth ]

Few dare write the true news of their chamber. [ Proverb ]

True valor, friends, on virtue founded strong,
Meets all events alike. [ Mallet ]

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. [ La Fontaine ]

Even to the delicacy of their hand
There was resemblance such as true blood wears. [ Byron ]

In this world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird. [ Swinburne ]

A true reformation must begin at the upper end. [ Proverb ]

That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. [ Yogi Berra ]

If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]

The true and the false speak the same language. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

True felicity consists of its own consciousness. [ Rivarol ]

He is a true sage who learns from all the world. [ Eastern Proverb ]

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. [ Homer ]

True love is rare; true friendship, still rarer. [ La Fontaine ]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. [ Pope ]

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. [ Roscommon ]

Never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. [ Milton ]

True comeliness, which nothing can impair,
Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare. [ Thomson ]

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [ Lessing ]

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. [ Hosea Ballou ]

A faithful friend in the true image of the Deity. [ Napoleon I ]

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use.
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good neighbours, and true friends, are two things. [ Proverb ]

Truth is the strong thing. Let man's life be true. [ Robert Browning ]

True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. [ Homer, Pope's Odyssey ]

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. [ Landor ]

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

True valour knows as well how to suffer as to act. [ Proverb ]

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. [ Massillon ]

The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]

One true friend is better than a hundred relations. [ Italian Proverb ]

The poet's pen is the true divining rod
Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all.
The many sweet clear sources which we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms;
And marks the variations of all mind
As does the needle. [ Bailey ]

The true ornament of matrons is virtue, not apparel. [ Justin ]

Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. [ Wordsworth, to a child ]

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God. [ Laboulaye ]

Great persons seldom see their face in a true glass. [ Proverb ]

There is but one antidote for coquetry, - true love. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies. [ Proverb ]

One can live in true freedom, and yet not be unbound. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch over what they love while sleeping. [ Byron ]

True zeal is merciful and mild, can pity and forbear. [ John Newton ]

All men's faces are true, whatsoever their hands are. [ William Shakespeare ]

The ground of true sorrow for sin, is the love of God. [ Proverb ]

Men believe that willingly which they wish to be true. [ Caesar ]

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. [ Amiel ]

Astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A true friend dares sometimes venture to be offensive. [ Proverb ]

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. [ Mohammed ]

True modesty protects a woman better than her garments.

The criterion of true beauty is that
It increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. [ Greville ]

To scoff at philosophy is to act as a true philosopher. [ Pascal ]

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. [ John Winthrop ]

That is true liberty which bears a pure and firm breast. [ Ennius ]

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Man is not depraved by true pleasures, but by false ones. [ De Lacretelle ]

Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]

Truth is to be loved purely and solely because it is true. [ Carlyle ]

Do you want true peace with men? Make your peace with God.

The true university of these days is a collection of books. [ Carlyle ]

Forever haltless hurries Time, the Durable to gain,
Be true, and thou shalt fetter Time with everlasting chain. [ Schiller ]

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. [ George Eliot ]

There can be no true aristocracy but must possess the land. [ Carlyle ]

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel. [ Whittier ]

Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. [ Boileau ]

False eloquence is exaggeration, true eloquence is emphasis. [ W. R. Alger ]

Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy. [ William Shakespeare ]

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who shall be true to us when we are so unsecret to ourselves? [ William Shakespeare ]

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. [ Tupper ]

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. [ Michael Angelo ]

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is almost as easy to find a true diamond, as a true friend. [ Proverb ]

True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public. [ Johnson ]

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. [ Horace Mann ]

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. [ Hazlitt ]

Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. [ Amiel ]

To the true teacher, Time's hourglass should still run gold-dust. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

So true it is, that nature has caprices which, art cannot imitate. [ Macaulay ]

A true and noble friendship shrinks not at the greatest of trials. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring! [ Milton ]

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. [ Jonathan Swift ]

The fetters of rhyme are no more than a bracelet to the true poet. [ Hans Sachs ]

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. [ Coleridge ]

You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. [ Horace ]

Death! to the happy thou art terrible;
But how the wretched love to think of thee,
O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside! [ Southey ]

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. [ Joubert ]

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share comes to. [ Proverb ]

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. [ Lord Halifax ]

It is not humility, but sordidness, to be regardless of true honour. [ Proverb ]

Naked glory is the true and honorable recompense of gallant actions. [ Le Sage ]

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Chamfort makes me laugh and think at the same time; that is true wit. [ Mme. Roland ]

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. [ Dewey ]

Base natures,, if they find themselves suspected, will never be true. [ Proverb ]

That is as true as that the cat crew, and the cock rocked the cradle. [ Proverb ]

Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. [ Chapman ]

The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late. [ R. Venning ]

The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write. [ Carlyle ]

To give pain is the tyranny, - to make happy the true empire of beauty. [ Steele ]

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. [ Beecher ]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more. [ La Roche ]

Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children. [ Goethe ]

Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal. [ Moliere ]

Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel. [ Charles Reade ]

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. [ Lord Mansfield ]

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. [ Hazlitt ]

In our own breast, there or nowhere flows the fountain of true pleasure. [ Wieland ]

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. [ Lamartine ]

The true gentlemen is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man. [ Proverb ]

The words of a friend joined with true affection, give life to the heart. [ Chilo ]

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. [ Carlyle ]

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. [ Hume ]

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls, valor does not wait for years. [ Corneille ]

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Once true, still more twice true, in the life of the spirit is always true. [ Ed ]

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Verily, there is nothing so true that the damps of error hath not warp'd it. [ Tupper ]

It is true that friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never. [ Colton ]

Never be afraid of what is good; the good is always the road to what is true. [ Hamerton ]

It is a true proverb that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt. [ Plutarch ]

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

True friendship, like a diamond, radiates steadily from its transparent heart. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin. [ Thornton ]

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. [ Burke ]

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind virtue has raised above the things below. [ Beattie ]

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. [ Massinger ]

The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. [ Chapin ]

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. [ Buckingham ]

True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]

True religion is a life unfolded within, not something forced on us from without. [ William Ellery Channing ]

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. [ Lord Greville ]

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. [ Carlyle ]

What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace? [ Young ]

Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, friendship and fidelity may be found. [ Gay ]

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. [ Emerson ]

Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed, to show us what a woman true can be. [ Lowell ]

Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The common mind is the true Parian marble, fit to be wrought into likeness to a god. [ George Bancroft ]

A true knight is fuller of gay bravery in the midst than in the beginning of danger. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it is true, but as it is significant. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. [ J. G. Holland ]

Life is no life without the blessing of a true, friendly, and edifying conversation. [ L'Estrange ]

The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. [ Carlyle ]

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian, but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. [ Bishop Horne ]

There is often more true spiritual force in a proverb than in a philosophical system. [ Carlyle ]

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [ Sallust ]

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God. [ John B. Gough ]

A man can never be a true gentleman in manner, until he is a true gentleman at heart. [ Charles Dickens ]

The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social. [ Carlyle ]

True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. [ Milton ]

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy. [ Burton ]

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. [ Henry Giles ]

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. [ Humphreys ]

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. [ Colton ]

O nude truth! O true truth! How difficult thou art to find, and how difficult to utter! [ Sainte-Beuve ]

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God. [ Winckelmann ]

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure. [ Mme. de Motteville ]

True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guides. [ Addison ]

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. [ Cudworth ]

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]

Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to thyself or to others: this is true morality. [ Chamfort ]

Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. [ Epictetus ]

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. [ Greville ]

What is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty? [ Thomas à Kempis ]

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. [ Shaftesbury ]

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]

Let him not dare to say anything that is false, nor let him dare to say what is not true. [ Cicero ]

True art is but the anti-type of nature, - the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. [ James A. Garfield ]

Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, and he's of men most wise who bears them best. [ Cumberland ]

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. [ Thoreau ]

Fly from the crowd, and be to virtue true. Content with what thou hast, though it be small. [ Chaucer ]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. [ W. R. Alger ]

True eyes, too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them. [ Owen Meredith ]

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. [ Addison ]

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. [ Johnson ]

Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles! (Gold) [ Byron ]

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. [ G. D. Prentice ]

True magnanimity does not consist so much in undertaking difficult things, as enduring evils. [ Proverb ]

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and the hardest in which to reach true excellence. [ Stedman ]

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. [ L'Estrange ]

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! [ Hawthorne ]

He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. [ Carlyle ]

Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man. [ Lord Burleigh ]

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That is true love which is always the same, whether you give everything or deny everything to it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The true characteristic of genius - without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them. [ Channing ]

How true it is that, sooner or later, the most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! [ De Stael ]

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. [ Sydney Dobell ]

To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words. [ Descartes ]

If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. [ Renan ]

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. [ Charles Sumner ]

True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. [ Charles Dickens ]

True philosophy raises us above grandeur, but nothing can raise us above the ennui which it causes. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. [ Carlyle ]

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. [ Chapin ]

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. [ Lactantius ]

If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters. [ Lord Bacon ]

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. [ Charles Sumner ]

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. [ Theophrastus ]

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant, action alone speaks. [ Tobias Smollett ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

True goodness is like the glow-worm; it shines most when no eyes, except those of heaven are upon it. [ Anonymous ]

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves. [ Bp. Patrick ]

True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront, with coldness. [ Francis la None ]

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him. [ John Ruskin ]

It is the treating of the common-place with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. [ J. F. Millet ]

Sentiment, in its broadest acceptation, is as essential to the true enjoyment and grace of life as mind. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]

Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. [ H. Giles ]

The spirit of contempt is the true spirit of Antichrist; for no other is more directly opposed to Christ. [ Henry Giles ]

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. [ William Penn ]

Possession is the touchstone of love: true love finds new ardor, frivolous love extinguishes itself in it. [ Panage ]

The art of putting well into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than true merit achieves. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The true prosperity and greatness of a nation is to be found in the elevation and education of its laborers. [ U. S. Grant ]

The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. [ Thoreau ]

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. [ Moliere ]

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. [ Venning ]

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works as by his patience. [ Horace Bushnell ]

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]

The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses; for light gains come often, great gains now and then. [ Bacon ]

The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself. [ Ovid ]

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. [ Daniel Webster ]

True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world. [ Rochefoucauld ]

When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? [ Lucretius ]

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. [ J. C. Hare ]

I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horse-litter. [ Charles Reade ]

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment and childlike mirthfulness. [ Thoreau ]

All men are married women's property; that is the only true definition of what married women's property really is. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. [ Charles Sumner ]

True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden. [ Hamerton ]

Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. [ Mrs. Child ]

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence. [ Swedenborg ]

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. [ Voltaire ]

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal. [ Chatfield ]

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. [ Gabriel García Márquez ]

What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. [ Platen ]

By virtue, integrity, perseverance and true modesty it is possible for all men to win the esteem of their fellow beings. [ C. N. Douglas ]

A halo of glory surrounds all true, pure mothers, showing their worthiness to sit upon the steps of the heavenly throne. [ Mrs. E. B. Duffey ]

Excitement is not enjoyment; in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. [ Victor Hugo ]

He in whom there is much to be developed will be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. [ Swift ]

The misanthropist is to be pitied when his despair proceeds from an ardent love for the good, the beautiful, and the true. [ George Sand ]

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. [ Paxton Hood ]

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. [ Hosea Ballou ]

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. [ South ]

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. [ James Howell ]

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men. [ Ed ]

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. [ Colton ]

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we and in fiction. [ J. G. Holland ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social - I mean a purse? [ Carlyle ]

One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are two freedoms, - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. [ Charles Kingsley ]

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. [ Cicero ]

No tongue can tell the joy of a pious mother, when her child is converted or turned from the way of folly to that of true wisdom. [ Mrs. Willard ]

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. [ Whately ]

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground: nor can any counterfeit last long. [ Cicero ]

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, - this is the mark and character of intelligence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The expressive word quiet defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. [ N. P. Willis ]

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself - if I may be allowed the expression - than to itself. [ Greville ]

I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]

I hope you are becoming more and more interested in making those around you happy. That is the true way to secure your own happiness. [ Robert E. Lee ]

Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, . . . and you shall need no other comfort. [ Bacon ]

Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got. [ Sprat ]

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings; they have their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine parts, and see no others. [ Mme. d'Epinay ]

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities. [ Southey ]

Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul. [ John Ruskin ]

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. [ Bovee ]

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]

The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry. [ A. Comte ]

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. [ Montaigne ]

Marriage is a romance until the book is open. True, the preface is sometimes amusing, but it never lasts long, and it is always deceptive. [ Poincelot ]

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the doorsill of insanity, at least once. [ Taine ]

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. [ Coleridge ]

True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]

We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. [ John Ruskin ]

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [ Washington ]

We should love our friends as true amateurs love pictures: they keep their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine points, and do not see the defects. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. [ Holmes ]

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]

Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be wise and true we all are, under the terriblest penalties. [ Carlyle ]

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. [ Lord Bacon ]

True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way. [ Locke ]

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty. [ Savonarola ]

When a man is base at the heart, he blights his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses into virtues. [ John Ruskin ]

Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim. [ Carlyle ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. [ Fenelon ]

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. [ Hermes ]

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffinman's bell. [ Carlyle ]

The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. [ John Ruskin ]

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. [ Sarah Ellis ]

Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. [ Barry Cornwall ]

I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. [ Montesquieu ]

Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. [ Ennius ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none. [ Henry James ]

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. [ Froude ]

O Love! when thou findest thy true apostles on earth united in kisses, thou commandest their eyelids to close like veils, that they may not see their happiness! [ A. de Musset ]

That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. [ Whately ]

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. [ Johnson ]

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]

I am of opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences. [ Cervantes ]

A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it. [ William Ellery Channing ]

True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. [ Sterne ]

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. [ Colton ]

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. [ Colton ]

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired. [ Steele ]

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. [ Pliny ]

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. [ Tuckerman ]

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. [ Emerson ]

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean - the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims. [ G. P. Morris ]

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. [ George D. Prentice ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

A misanthrope was told of a young friend of his: Your friend has no experience of the world; he knows nothing about it. True; but he is already as sad as if he knew all about it.

Literature is a mere step to knowledge; and the error often lies in our identifying one with the other. Literature may, perhaps, make us vain; true knowledge must make us humble. [ Mrs. John Sanford ]

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

Books are the true metempsychosis, - they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. [ Beecher ]

I do not know in the whole history of the world a hero, a worthy man, a prophet, a true Christian, who has not been the victim of the jealous, of a scamp, or of a sinister spirit. [ Voltaire ]

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]

The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. [ Goldsmith ]

A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction, will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. [ John Ruskin ]

It is too generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful what they owe to God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often enough and regularly enough. [ Bishop Whately ]

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. [ Landor ]

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. [ Dryden ]

There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them. [ Joubert ]

The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. [ J. Vick ]

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon. [ Lavater ]

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners: beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. [ Joubert ]

I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself. [ Dr. Arnold ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]

A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. [ Swedenborg ]

Of all varieties of fopperies, the vanity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. Title, indeed, may be purchased, but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. [ Burton ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection. [ Willmott ]

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. [ Plutarch ]

True, the poisonous breath of the world destroys our illusions, but they resuscitate at once when a ray of love falls upon our benumbed hearts, as the warmth of the sun revives the poor flowers withered by the ices of winter. [ De Finod ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. [ Carlyle ]

The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, - such are the objects of true education. [ J. T. Headley ]

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]

An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. [ Duclos ]

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]

The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. [ Sir William Jones ]

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness, - these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. [ Miss Sedgwick ]

I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]

The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. [ Henry Giles ]

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images: we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately. [ La Bruyere ]

Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. [ Carlyle ]

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities. [ De Quincey ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. [ Carlyle ]

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say. [ Emerson ]

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself, is also a friend to mankind; even in my studies the greatest delight I take is that of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner. [ Seneca ]

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Remember this; they that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over your knuckles. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth. [ Landor ]

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]

A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. [ Victor Cousin ]

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]

The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. [ Adam Clarke ]

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. [ Addison ]

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. [ Albert Barnes ]

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]

I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. [ E. P. Whipple ]

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go. to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch. [ Pascal ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man. [ Emerson ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]

Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like? - and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]

You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts, - the ifirst and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind, - just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference. [ Coleridge ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]

What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

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(10)
RUTE
(10)
RUTE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
RUE
(9)
RUE
(9)
RUT
(9)
RUT
(9)
RUT
(9)
RUE
(9)
TRUE
(8)
RUTE
(8)
RUTE
(8)
TRUE
(8)
RUTE
(8)
RUTE
(8)
TRUE
(8)
TRUE
(8)
RUTE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
RUTE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
RUTE
(6)
RE
(6)
RE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUTE
(6)
RUTE
(6)
RUT
(6)
RUT
(6)
RUTE
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUT
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUE
(5)
RUT
(5)
TRUE
(5)
TRUE
(5)
RUTE
(5)
RUT
(5)
TRUE
(5)
RUE
(5)
RUT
(5)
RUT
(5)
RUE
(5)
RUTE
(5)
RUTE
(5)
RUTE
(5)
RUE
(5)
TRUE
(5)
RE
(4)
RUE
(4)
RUE
(4)
RE
(4)
RUT
(4)
RUT
(4)
RE
(4)
TRUE
(4)
RE
(4)
RUT
(4)
RUTE
(4)
RUE
(4)
RUT
(3)
RE
(3)
RUE
(3)
RE
(3)
RE
(2)

true in Words With Friends™

The word true is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters true:

TRUE
(21)
RUTE
(21)
RUTE
(21)
TRUE
(21)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word true

TRUE
(21)
TRUE
(21)
TRUE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
TRUE
(12)
TRUE
(12)
TRUE
(11)
TRUE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
TRUE
(9)
TRUE
(9)
TRUE
(8)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
TRUE
(5)

The 91 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In true

TRUE
(21)
RUTE
(21)
RUTE
(21)
TRUE
(21)
RUTE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
RUTE
(15)
RUTE
(15)
RUTE
(15)
TRUE
(15)
RUE
(12)
RUT
(12)
RUT
(12)
RUTE
(12)
RUTE
(12)
RUT
(12)
TRUE
(12)
RUE
(12)
TRUE
(12)
RUE
(12)
RUTE
(11)
TRUE
(11)
TRUE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
RUTE
(10)
RUTE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
RUTE
(10)
TRUE
(10)
RUTE
(10)
TRUE
(9)
RUTE
(9)
TRUE
(9)
RUTE
(9)
RUTE
(8)
TRUE
(8)
RUT
(8)
RUE
(8)
RUT
(8)
RUE
(8)
RUT
(8)
RUT
(8)
RUE
(8)
RUE
(8)
RUT
(8)
RUE
(8)
TRUE
(7)
RUTE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
TRUE
(7)
RUTE
(7)
RUTE
(7)
RUTE
(7)
RUTE
(7)
RUTE
(7)
RUT
(6)
RE
(6)
RE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUE
(6)
RUTE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
RUT
(6)
RUT
(6)
RUTE
(6)
TRUE
(6)
RUTE
(6)
RUT
(6)
RUE
(5)
TRUE
(5)
RUTE
(5)
RUT
(5)
RUE
(5)
RUT
(5)
RUT
(4)
RUE
(4)
RE
(4)
RE
(4)
RE
(4)
RE
(4)
RE
(3)
RE
(3)
RE
(2)

Word Growth involving true

Shorter words in true

rue

Longer words containing true

construe construed misconstrued

construe construes misconstrues

construe misconstrue misconstrued

construe misconstrue misconstruer misconstruers

construe misconstrue misconstrues

construe reconstrue

menstrue menstrues

truehearted trueheartedly

truehearted trueheartedness

truelove trueloves

trueness

truer misconstruer misconstruers

truer untruer

trues construes misconstrues

trues menstrues

trues truescale

trues truest untruest

untrue untruer

untrue untruest