Quotes
Quotes about Trust
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe.
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.
He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it, And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour. This life's a fort committed to my trust, Which I must not yield up, till it be forced: Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears calamity.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd.
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
It is better to be trusted than to be loved.
I don't really trust a sane person.
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
