Quotes About Reliability

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

Keep your promises to yourself.

The trodden path is the safest.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Whatever you promise the public in your advertising, or whatever you lead the public to expect, even though not explicitly stated, is what the public gets sore about if it isn't delivered, and the explosion of a grouch is heard much farther than the gentle hum of satisfaction. It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

Well, it's stupid, and it's no wonder people are perpetually fucked up, as nobody can depend on something as basic as February. Which is already screwed up because it insists on having less days, then adding one like a little prize every four years even though everybody wants February to get the hell over so we can move on.

One doesn't leave one's mates behind at such a time.

He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.

I'll call you, Manny said. You do that, my man. You frickin' do that. -Manny to V

The thing had woken him up as usual, an alarm clock. as reliable and stiff off the ground as Big Fucking Ben. [John Matthew]