quotes about trusting no one

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ~Author Unknown


All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain


As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes


I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ~Jorge Luis Borges


Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~Colonel Potter


Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ~Proverbs 6:27


A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~Herbert Prochnow


Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb


I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier


Half of my heart is deployed. ~Author Unknown


Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb


Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman


When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman


While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci


There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin


The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt