Does that seem to you a truism?

And if the pebbles are rounded, while the rocks like them in the highlands always break off in angular shapes, is it not, again, an act of mere common sense to sayThese pebbles were once angular, and have been rubbed round, either in getting hither or before they started hither? Does all this seem to you mere truism, my dear reader?

In my early days I once opened an old book and found these words: If you laugh a great deal, you are happy; if you cry a great deal, you are unhappy;a very simple remark, no doubt; but just because it is so simple I have never been able to forget it, even though it is in the last degree a truism.

Taken by itself, this, but for one consideration, might be pronounced the superfluous assertion of a truism; superfluous, because it is obvious that a House of Commons hostile to a minister can compel his resignation by obstructing all his measures.

But it is a truism that deeds, not words, are the demonstration and test of character; wherefore, from time immemorial, it has been the recognized business of the theatre to exhibit character in action.

He regarded it as a truism unworthy of notice; he evidently felt that a comparison between love and dollars was preposterous.

Again, what would become of the Posthaec meminisse juvabit of the poet, if a principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our nature, or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism?

He is as fluent and copiousas skilful in spreading a truism over a dozen well-sounding linesas any of his predecessors.

It is a mere truism to say that the cotton-culture is the cause of the present philosophical and economical phase of the African question.

The habits of the Americans being essentially gregarious, and business teaching the truism that a cent saved is a cent gained, hackney coaches are comparatively little used by the men; for it must be remembered that idlers in this country are an invisible minority of the community!

They can only answer the great paradox by repeating the truism.

To be told that she cooked badly had long ceased to be an insult, and was becoming merely a worrying truism.

RULE IX.FINAL E. The final e of a primitive word, when this letter is mute or obscure, is generally omitted before an additional termination beginning with a vowel: as, remove, removal; rate, ratable; force, forcible; true, truism; rave, raving; sue, suing; eye, eying; idle, idling; centre, centring.

It is a truism in free governments that laws rest upon public opinion, and fall powerless before its determined opposition.

It is a truism to say that the gun has little value whether for offence or for defence unless the man behind it possesses the right kind of spirit which will infuse and guide his purpose and his action with the gun.

"That is a venerable truism.

This obvious truism is often forgotten by those who look on finance as an independent influence that can make money power out of nothing; and those who forget it are very likely to find themselves entangled in a maze of error.

This is not a truism, it is a large, significant fact.

I always want to remind people of this truism when they have first come into contact with sex in some horrible and shameful way.

It is the very opposite of dissertation and declamation; its distinction is not so much ingenuity, as good sense brought to a point; it ought to be neither enigmatical nor flat, neither a truism on the one hand, nor a riddle on the other.

The truism, however, and the commonplace may be stated in a form so fresh, pungent, and free from triviality, as to have all the force of new discovery.

That we ought to act in accordance with these opinions, and that we are acting wrongly if we act in opposition to them, is a truism.

It has now become a truism that enormous mischief is done by the indiscriminate distribution of alms to beggars or paupers.

It is, moreover, a truism that the best work is produced by the most contented worker.

This is a truism, but it does not explain what is the real cause of this lack of confidence, which, when the crisis comes, is not mere unreasoning fear that needs only to ignore the danger to banish it.