DISTRUST

Related Subjects: Belief, Confidence, Credit, Credulity, Duty, Faith, Honesty, Obligation, Responsibility, Sincerity, Suspicion

1. Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch.—AESOP, The Two Fellows and the Bear
   

2. A usurper always distrusts the whole world.—ALFIERI, Polinice
   

3. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?—GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
   

4. When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
   Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Irene
   

5. A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.—MME. NECKER
   

6. He who trusteth not, is not deceived.—Proverb
   

7. Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight.—Proverb
   

8. One can positively never be deceived if one mistrusts everything in the world, even one's own scepticism.—ARTHUR SCHNITZLER, The Road to the Open
   

9. Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;
   I pray for no man but myself:
   Grant I may never prove so fond,
   To trust man on his oath or bond.—SHAKESPEARE, Tinton of Athens
   

10. Three things a wise man will not trust,
    The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
    And woman's plighted faith.—SOUTHEY, Madoc in Aztlan