Quotes About Reliability

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

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.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

I'm a man of my word.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Only men of character are trusted.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.