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Quotes About Trust

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
~ Scottish Proverb
A hand that's dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor.
~ Proverb
Lady-bird! Lady-bird! pretty one, stay: Come sit on my finger, so happy and gay. With me shall no mischief betide thee; No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near: I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee.
~ Author unknown, 1800s
...words are slippery and tricky creatures, whether they drop from the tip of the tongue or of the pen, and when used in important matters, cannot be too carefully watched or too strongly manacled.
~ Lelia J. Robinson, 1886
No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his followers.
~ Author Unknown
Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.
~ Author Unknown
Lucy: What in the world is so great about having a library card? Linus: It's what it stands for! They trust me! They're honoring my desire for knowledge with their trust! In return I'm showing my faith in their library by reading their books… it's a common bond of trust… Lucy: You haven't got a library card… you've got a treaty!
~ Charles Schulz, Peanuts, 1960
Those in love are blind with open eyes.
~ English proverb
Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.
~ Alexandre Dumas, fils
Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.
~ Terri Guillemets
Love is a river of risk that ends in an ocean of security.
~ Terri Guillemets
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
~ Proverb
Successful marriage: The union of two good forgivers.
~ Robert Quillen, c.1935
ADULTERY. Democracy applied to love.
~ H. L. Mencken
Believe me then, my friend, that that is a miserable arithmetic which would estimate friendship at nothing, or at less than nothing.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.
~ S. A. Sachs, 2003
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
~ Author Unknown
Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.
~ Dutch proverb
You can fool some of the people some of the time... But you can't fool Mom!
~ Our Gang, 1935
And November sad,—a psalm Tender, trustful, full of balm, Thou must breathe in spirits calm.
~ Caroline May, 1887
Always borrow money from a pessimist... He never expects to be paid back.
~ Buffalo Express, 1910
Optimism... The instinct to lie.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Peace is the father of friendship.
~ African Proverb
Put all your faith in poets. You will find few others to share Beauty with you; and it cannot be borne alone.
~ Christopher Morley