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Quotes About Trust

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
~ William Shakespeare
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
~ William Sloane Coffin
I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.
~ Yehudi Menuhin
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
~ Alexander Pope
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
~ Baltasar Gracian
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
~ Benjamin Franklin
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
~ Bertrand Russell
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
~ Betty Grable
I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.
~ Britt Robertson
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.
~ Rumi
Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
~ Samuel Johnson
We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.
~ Sophia Bush
For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.
~ Sophocles
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
~ Stephen Leacock
I will tell the stork-man.
~ Tamora Pierce
A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
~ Terry Pratchett
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
~ Tommy Franks
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
~ Vance Havner
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
~ Will Rogers
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
~ William Shenstone