Quotes About Trust

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

You can't pray a lie.

Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

lying to them is bad! I am a real person!

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

be careful in loving someone

If you are not careful, you can end up with many friends to do stuff with and to enjoy stuff with, but when it comes to sharing in the most intimate ways, is there anyone there?

If you want to have a friend, then be a friend.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.