Quotes About Reliability

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

I am a man of my word… and that word is "unreliable.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

If anything happens, Marcus will save you. Won't you, Marcus? Hale asked, looking up at the man, who nodded. It would be an honor, Miss.