TRUTH BE TOLD
When in doubt, tell the truth. –Mark Twain
Truth be told, I just found out that July 7 was TELL THE TRUTH DAY. Better late than never? That may or may not be true, but today I’m in the mood to post, and at this “late” juncture, truth is doubtless as good a thesis as any (if you believe Mark Twain).
Friends, I don’t claim to be in the same league as such legendary and current truth-tellers as Pinocchio and Donald Trump, but I am (almost) always in favor of telling the truth. In fact, one of my favorite TV quiz shows back in the day was TO TELL THE TRUTH. But before we go there, I need to set it up with a clip from a quiz show I featured in a previous post (I’VE GOT A SECRET)….the reason being that one of the panelists on the latter program (a humorist who is little-remembered today) plays a big part in the surprise ending of the TO TELL THE TRUTH clip, and it helps if you know he was once famous.
Assuming you can abide a bit more truth-telling, I will close with some quotes on the subject:
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and simple. –Oscar Wilde
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. –Aldous Huxley
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. –Albert Einstein
Beware of a half-truth: you may have gotten hold of the wrong half. –Evan Esar
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. –Charles Spurgeon
All men are born truthful and die liars. –Luc de Clapiers
Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move.
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
–William Shakespeare
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GP Cox 6:45 am on July 16, 2017 Permalink |
My mom and her best friend had tickets for 3 to go to the taping of “To Tell the Truth”. It was interesting and fun, something I obviously still remember despite being so young.
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mistermuse 7:20 am on July 16, 2017 Permalink |
I appreciate your comment, GP. You have the honor of being the first person I know who’s ever been to the taping of a TV program. Good show, old chap! 🙂
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GP Cox 7:43 am on July 16, 2017 Permalink
How about that!! I also saw “What’s My LIne” and got a private tour of NBC in NYC [only because the secretary for Tom Synder was a childhood friend of my parents and I was in NYC to see the Pope and we ended up on the news that night.]
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Ricardo 11:11 am on July 16, 2017 Permalink |
“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.” Would that Mark Twain could be resurrected for this age of Trump.
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mistermuse 11:53 am on July 16, 2017 Permalink |
It’s too bad Trump’s nose doesn’t grow like Pinocchio’s every time he tells a lie. He’d have to get a nose job every day to cut it back to size, but at least he has so much money he wouldn’t have to worry if his health insurance didn’t cover it.
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Mark Scheel 4:28 pm on July 17, 2017 Permalink |
muse,
Wow! That brings back some memories. But makes me feel really old. Well, I AM old! I note one famous quote you didn’t use–“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (I’ll leave the attribution to you.) ; – )
Mark
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mistermuse 4:56 pm on July 17, 2017 Permalink |
Mark, if you think those clips make you feel old, I was already in my twenties at that time. 😦
As for the quote you noted, attribution is easy: I attribute it to Mark Scheel. 🙂
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BroadBlogs 7:46 pm on July 20, 2017 Permalink |
“Friends, I don’t claim to be in the same league as such legendary and current truth-tellers as Pinocchio and Donald Trump”
Odd that his followers saw him as authentic. I guess authentic for them is a willingness to be hurtful to others. Or babbling on.
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mistermuse 12:12 am on July 21, 2017 Permalink |
“Authentic,” as in telling it like it is — but any fool can tell it like (he thinks) it is. By that standard, , we should admire Hitler or any “authentic” leader who tells it like (he thinks) it is.
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moorezart 11:25 am on July 21, 2017 Permalink |
Reblogged this on From 1 Blogger 2 Another.
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barkinginthedark 7:00 pm on May 24, 2022 Permalink |
Bismarck said: “When you have to fool the world, tell the truth.” So true. continue…
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mistermuse 10:13 pm on May 24, 2022 Permalink |
On the other hand, Trump fools much of the world by shamelessly telling lies. Thus it seems that fools will believe anything they’re told (if it’s what they want to hear).
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