Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hesiod

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Herodotus

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Henry L. Stimson

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry L. Stimson

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Henry Clay

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Fielding

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Women are proverbially credulous.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Khalil Gibran

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

Orlando Aloysius Battista

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

Orison Swett Marden

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Cromwell

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Mason Cooley

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

Mason Cooley

I trust you because I need you.

Mason Cooley

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

Mason Cooley

Trust, but look for the exits.

Mary Augusta Ward

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Michael Moore

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Michael Josephson

How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

John Adams

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

Harvey Fierstein

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Louise Hay

I trust myself to deal with any problems that arise during the day

George B. McClellan

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

James Madison

The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Eric Sevareid

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Josh Bowman

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.