Quotes About Reliability

Who steals an egg would steal a cow." She believed it, and applied it to their vineyard manager regularly.

Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad –por desagradable que ésta pueda ser— a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.

That's wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he's looking out for himself. Don't we all? I don't trust a man that says he's not. And the man that's telling the truth when he says he's not I distrust most of all, because he's and ass and an ass that's going contrary to the laws of nature.

If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, It seems to be raining, on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Yo desconfío de un hombre que dice basta cuando le están sirviendo de beber. Pues si ha de tener cuidado de no beber demasiado, esto indica que no es de fiar cuando lo hace

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

New houses, which are crap, because they don't build them the way they used to anymore. Old houses, which used to be good, because they were built back when they built them the way they used to, but which today, as a result of being old, are crap. So whichever kind of house you own, it's going to be some variety of crap, which means sooner or later everything in it will break. Dealing with broken things is the essence of home ownership, and it's exhausting.

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

A promise is like the earth underneath us. It must be solid. How can we walk, and run, and live and laugh, when we can't count on the ground beneath us. And so it is with promises. They keep us upright. They hold up everyone and everything

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

sure our corpulent friend

I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

But I'll be there for you as the world falls down

Keep as few secrets as possible. The remaining ones will be easier to protect.

That illustrates my rule of thumb for reading history: View with suspicion any anecdote that makes a good enough story to have survived on its literary merits.

You won't be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than you'd be able to lie or cheat or steal. It's built into you to do it right, so don't worry about it. That's all very well for you to say, Mistress, Pol, he replied, but if you don't mind, I will worry about it just a bit--privately of course.

He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend—he had told the truth about him.

Men should be what they seem.

But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.