"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

for the truth may run fine but will not break, and always rises above falsehood as oil above water;

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

OK, we'll tell her you dug the grave." It's the truth - stretch, but still true. Besides, what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits, without those better versions of ourselves that we present as the only ones that exist?

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

"OK, we'll tell her you dug the grave." It's the truth - stretch, but still true. Besides, what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits, without those better versions of ourselves that we present as the only ones that exist?

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.

Truth is great, and stronger than all things. The whole earth calls upon truth, and heaven blesses it. All God’s works quake and tremble, and with him there is nothing unrighteous. Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all human beings are unrighteous, all their works are unrighteous, and all such things. There is no truth in them and in their unrighteousness they will perish. But truth endures and is strong forever, and lives and prevails forever and ever. With it there is no partiality or preference, but it does what is righteous instead of anything that is unrighteous or wicked. Everyone approves its deeds, and there is nothing unrighteous in its judgment. To it belongs the strength and the kingship and the power and the majesty of all the ages. Blessed be the God of truth!

In the end, the truth ultimately wins over lies and evil.

Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.