Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“That one true heart was left behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal among human kind
A dog’s fidelity!””
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“There was books too.... One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)