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  • Trust him as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

    - Dean Gooderham Acheson
      Advice to President Truman on J Edgar Hoover. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

  • Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Job13:15.

  • The children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 36:7.

  • Delightthyself also inthe L, and heshall givetheethe desires of thine heart.Commit thy way unto the L; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 37:4^5.

  • In thee,O L, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 71:1.

  •    Trust in the L with all thine heart; and lean not unto Psalms thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDProverbs 3:5^6.

  • Lo, thou trusted in thestaff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 36:6.

  • O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm146:2.

  • Weil ich ihm nicht traue, sind wir befreundet. Because I don't trust him, we are friends.

    - Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht
      Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ('Mother Courage and her Children'), sc.3.

  • All my hope on God is founded He does still my trust renew, Me through change and chance he guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be his own.

    - Robert Seymour Bridges
      Hymn.

  • But without the trust of the people, no government can stand.

    -'The MasterK'ung' Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse
    c.479  BC  The Analects.

  • A wrong decision can make me very miserable.But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don't have to worry, as you don't have the sole responsibility.

    - Alfred Thompson, Lord Denning
      Speech on his retirement.

  • I repeat†that all power is a trustthat we are accountable for its exercisethat, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

    - Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
    ^7  Vivian Grey, bk.6, ch.10.

  • Sometimes I think we're the only two lawyers in Washington who trust each other.

    - Elizabeth Hanford Dole
      On her marriage to Senator Bob Dole. In Newsweek, 3  Aug.

  • All empire is no more than power in trust.

    -John Dryden
    Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.411.

  • Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'  d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

    - Sir Edward Dyer
      'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

  • Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

    - Robert Henryson
    c.1470  The Testament of Cresseid, l.561^4.

  • Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
    ^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.2.

  • When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

    -Thomas Jefferson
      Letter to Baron von Humboldt.

  • To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

    -June Jordan
      Keynote address for Child Welfare League of  America. Collected as'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

  • I don't trust anybody who's never eaten bread with the salt of tears.

    -Takeshi Kaiko
      'The Laughing Stock', in Five Thousand Runaways (translated by Cecilia Segawa Seigle).

  • If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dreamand not make dreams your master; If you can thinkand not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet withTriumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Rewards and Fairies,'If'.

  • Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

    - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
      Studies in Classic  American Literature, ch.1.

  • Liberty, asit is conceived bycurrent opinion, hasnothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

    -Joseph R(aymond) McCarthy
      Speech. Collected as 'The Contagion of Ideas', in On the Contrary (1961).

  • In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

    - Norman Kingsley Mailer
      The Presidential Papers, preface.

  • The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

    - David Alan Mamet
      Writing in Restaurants,'Things I Have Learned Playing Poker On The Hill'.

  • In giving you these tapes, blemishes and all, I am placing my trust in the basic fairness of the American people.

    - Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
      National address, 30 May, on relinquishing the Watergate tapes after the House  Judiciary Committee warned him that refusal 'might constitute a ground for impeachment'.

  •    Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

    - Sir Walter Raleigh
      'TheAuthor's Epitaph, Made by Himself'. Poem written the night before his death.

  • Never trust a husband too far, or a bachelor too near.

    - Helen Rowland
      The Rubaiyat of a Bachelor.

  • Utrumque enim vitium est, et omnibus credere et nulli. It is equally unsound to trust everyone and to trust no one.

    -Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger
    Epistulae, 3.4.

  • The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture† Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.

    - Steven Shapin
      A Social History ofTruth.

  • Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.

    - Rev Sydney Smith
    Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol1, ch. 6.

  • For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

    - Sir Stephen Harold Spender
      'What I Expected,Was'.

  • Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame Is racked with pains that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

    -Tennyson
      In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 50, l.1^8.

  • Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.

    -Tennyson
      In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.1^2.

  • Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At lastfar offat last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

    -Tennyson
      In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.13^20.

  • And trust me not at all or all in all.

    -Tennyson
      Idylls of the King,'Merlin andVivien', l.396.

  • Ifelt my heart strangely warmed.I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given methat hehad taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

    -John Wesley
      Journal entry, 24 May.

  • One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      Lord Illingworth. AWoman of No Importance, act1.

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