#rusts

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

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. ↗

— Francis I

#fickle #foolish #her #trusts #who

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. ↗

— Shirley Hufstedler

#asks #be prepared #calling #children #democratic

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#apt #kind #man #nobody #trusts