#trusts

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#business #entrusted #first #fit #found

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#luck #man #no reason #reason #trust

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

#ghastly #god #hands #i #i think

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. ↗

— Brian Moore

#causes #distrusts #majority #people #silent

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

#fewer #make #man #men #mistakes

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom

A usurper always distrusts the whole world. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#distrusts #whole #world

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#experience #find #i #kind #long