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TRUMAN (HARRY S)
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TROUBLE

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Every cloud has a silver lining.
--"American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette" [15 December 1855]

It never rains but it pours.
--John Arbuthnot (1667—1735)
Scottish physician, satirist and polymath.
Title of book. [1726].

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying,
It never was worthwhile. So:
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
--George Asaf [George H. Powell] (1880—1951)
British songwriter,
"Pack up your Troubles" [1915 song]
(Music by Felix Powell.)

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also
of all progress in individuals and in nations.
--Berthold Auerbach (1812—1882)
German novelist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 108 [1886].

There is but one easy place in
this world, and that is the grave.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
Attributed in "The Treasury" (mag.) [May 1901].

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Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and
unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this
life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are
of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good
fortune to others.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
{retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}


Consolation, n. The knowledge that a better
man is more unfortunate than yourself.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)


Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune
than never misses.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Devil's Dictionary_ [1911]

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If you would not have affliction visit you
twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
--James Burgh (1714—1775)
Scottish author.
The Dignity of Human Nature [1754]

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by
folks who can't mind their own business, because
they have no business of their own to mind, any
more than a smallpox virus has.
--William S. Burroughs (1914—1997)
American author associated with the Beat Generation.
_The Adding Machine_ "My Own Business" [1985]

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Put you in this pickle.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, bk. 1, ch. 5 [1605]


Forewarned forearmed.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 2, bk. 3, ch. 10 [1615]

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[Credo of fictional detective Philip Marlowe:]
Trouble is My Business.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
Title of article in "Dime Detective Magazine" [August 1939]

An adventure is only an inconvenience
rightly considered. An inconvenience is
only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_All Things Considered_ [1908] "On Running After Ones Hat"

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
--Chinese proverb

You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;
You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule
Should ever be kept at the front:—
Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
--Edmund Vance Cooke (1866—1932)
Canadian poet.
"Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed", l. 7 [1903]

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow;
and when we lie down at night we may say to most
of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we
shall see you no more."
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
Attributed in "Our Paper", pub. by the
Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.) [20 March 1920].

What a revoltin' development this is!
--Daffy Duck
In "Mexican Joyride" [1947 animated feature].

We come to know best what men are,
in their worse jeopardies.
--Samuel Daniel (1562—1619)
English poet and dramatist.
_To Henry Wriothesley Earl of Southampton_

It is a matter of much satisfaction and gratitude with
me to observe how heroically most of us endure the
misfortunes of other people.
--John W. De Forest (1826—1906)
American writer.
_Seacliff or The Mystery of the Westervelts_ [1859]

My life is one demd horrid grind!
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Nicholas Nickleby [1839]

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the
problem is food. When you have money, it's sex.
When you have both, it's health, you worry about
getting ruptured or something. If everything is
simply jake then you're frightened of death.
--J. P. Donleavy (1926— )
American dramatist and novelist.
O'Keefe, in _The Ginger Man_, ch. 5 [1955]

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Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived;
But what torments of pain you endured
From evils that never arrived!
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Translation of a French poem in
"Considerations by the Way"
_The Conduct of Life_ [1860].


When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Attributed in "The American Mercury" [1956].

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He who multiplies his possessions multiplies his cares.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [September 1744]

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
--Thomas Fuller (1608—1661)
English churchman and historian.
_A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine_ [1650]

If afflictions refine some, they consume others.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
_Gnomologia_ [1732]

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]

In all the woes that curse our race
There is a lady in the case.
--W. S. Gilbert (1836—1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse.
"Fallen Fairies" [1866]

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming,
understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant,
overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
--Billy Graham (1918— )
American Christian evangelist.
Quoted in _The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham_ [2004].

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
--Thomas C. Haliburton (1796—1865)
Canadian politician, judge, and writer who was best known
as the creator of the literary character, Sam Slick.
_Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances_, vol. 2, p. 106 [2 vol., 1853]

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't
pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say
embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an
enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll
see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms
with it.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't
have anything to laugh at when you are old.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
Attributed in "Forbes" [1980].

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God will not look you over for medals,
degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_A Thousand and One Epigrams_ [1911]


If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just
remember that this is also true of trouble.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]


Life is just one damned thing after another.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
In "Philistine" [December 1909].

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How much pain have cost us the evils
which have never happened.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
"A Decologue of Canons for observation in personal life";
in a letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith [21 February 1825].

Never trust the man who tells you all his
troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
--Jewish Proverb

Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadow.
--Helen Keller (1880—1968)
American author and educator who was blind and deaf.
Quoted in Walter Fogg _One Thousand Sayings of History_ [1929].

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle
and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness
sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there
is a Light from within.
--Elisabeth Kόbler-Ross (1926—2004)
Swiss-born psychiatrist and author.
_To Live Until We Say Goodbye_ [1978]

Philosophy easily triumphs over past ills and ills
to come, but present ills triumph over philosophy.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
_Maxims_ [1665]

If it isn't one thing it's another.
--"L.A. Times" [9 June 1903]

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
--Frank Leahy (1908—1973)
Coached Notre Dame football team to 4 national championships.
Quoted in _Daily Mail_ (Charleston, WV) [4 May 1954].

Yesterday, all my troubles
seemed so far away.
Now it seems
they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
--John Lennon (1940—1980) & Paul McCartney (1942— )
English pop singers and songwriters,
"Yesterday" [1965 song]

Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"The Rainy Day"

He who walks through a great city to find subjects for
weeping, may, God knows, find plenty at every corner
to wring his heart; but let such a man walk on his
course, and enjoy his grief alone -- we are not of
those who would accompany him. The miseries of us
poor earthdwellers gain no alleviation from the
sympathy of those who merely hunt them out to be
pathetic over them. The weeping philosopher too often
impairs his eyesight by his woe, and becomes unable
from his tears to see the remedies for the evils
which he deplores. Thus it will often be found that
the man of no tears is the truest philanthropist, as
he is the best physician who wears a cheerful face,
even in the worst of cases.
--Charles Mackay (1814—1889)
Scottish poet and newspaperman.
_Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_ [1841]

there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble
--Don Marquis (1878—1937)
American poet and journalist.
_archy does his part_ [1935] "comforting thoughts"

We talk about fate as if it were something
visited upon us; we forget that we create
our fate every day we live. And by fate I
mean the woes that beset us, which are
merely the effects of causes which are not
nearly as mysterious as we pretend. Most
of the ills we suffer from are directly
traceable to our own behavior.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_A Devil in Paradise_ [1956]

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
--Dolly Parton (1946— )
American country music singer.
In Bob Phillips _Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts_, p. 264 [1993].

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling
one's trouble does not make it better.
--Cesare Pavese (1908—1950)
Italian novelist, poet, and translator.
_This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935—1950_ [1952]

"And the King wanted an inscription good for a thousand years and after that
to the end of the world?"
"Yes, precisely so."
"Something so true and awful that no matter what happened it would stand?"
"Yes, exactly that."
"Something no matter who spit on it or laughed at it there it would stand
and nothing would change it?"
"Yes, that was what the king ordered his wise men to write."
"And what did they write?"
"Five words: THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY."
--Carl Sandburg (1878—1967)
American poet.
_The People, Yes_ [1936]

The real troubles in your life are apt to
be things that never crossed your worried
mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 P.M.
on some idle Tuesday.
--Mary Schmich
American newspaper columnist.
"Wear Sunscreen" _Chicago Tribune_ [1 July 1997]

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Things past redress are now with me past care.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist,
_Richard II_, II, iii [1595]


Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, I, iv [1601]


To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, III. i [1601]


The worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Lear_, IV, i, 29 [1605—1606]

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More men discover their souls in darkness than
they do in light. This is not to invite darkness; it
is only to be reminded that darkness need not
go to waste when it is thrust upon us.
--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular
preacher to appear on television.
_On Being Human_ [1982]

Troubles hurt the most
when they prove self-inflicted.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Oedipus Rex_ tr. David Grene [1942]

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave;
they will never rise again when you have committed them to
Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back
again like the stone of Sisyphus.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834—1892)
English nonconformist preacher.
Quoted in Rev. Elon Foster _New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations_, p. 638 [1870].

There are those among us who live in rooms
of experience that you and I can never enter.
--attributed to John Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.

[The ideal client is] the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
--John W. Sterling (1844—1918)
American lawyer.
Quoted in American Bar Association Journal" [April 1960].

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
--Amy Tan (b. 1952)
American writer.
Interview with Eleanor Wachtel published in Wachtel's _Writers & Company_ [1993].

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
"Enoch Arden" [1864]

I am an old man and have known a great many
troubles, but most of them never happened.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
--Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [April 1934].

Maybe one day it will be cheering to remember even these things.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_, bk. I, l. 203 [c. 29-19 B.C.]

If you think your bundle of dirty clothes too
heavy, try picking up your neighbor's.
--Virgin Island Proverb

Opinion has caused more trouble on this
little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
--attributed to Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
--William Arthur Ward (1921—1994)
American college administrator and author.
Quoted in Norman Vincent Peale _Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm_ [1981].

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About 850 B.C., Odysseus, the hero from Homer's "The Odyssey," faced
a perilous nautical journey between Scylla, a terrifying sea
monster, and Charybdis, a massive whirlpool. As Homer's story was
passed down through the generations, it became immortalized in the
metaphor, "Between Scylla and Charybdis," which was used to describe
the careful path one must take to emerge from two troubling fronts.
--"Between Scylla and Charybdis"
John J. Castellani, in "The Wall Street Journal"
[23 August 2005]

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A married couple goes to see a rabbi. 'What can
I do for you,' the rabbi says. 'We're having a
terrible problem, Rabbi,' the couple says. 'We
have five children and we all live in a one-room
house and we're driving each other crazy.' The
rabbi says, 'Move in a sheep.' So they move a
sheep into the house. A week later they go see
the rabbi and tell him that things are worse than
ever, plus there's a sheep. 'Move in a cow,' the
rabbi says. The next week they go to complain
once again, there's a cow. 'Move in a horse,' the
rabbi says. The next week the couple goes to see
the rabbi to tell him that things are the worst
they've ever been. 'You're ready for the solution,'
the rabbi says. 'Move the animals out.'

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fraught (adj.) [frat or frawt]
Loaded, filled, weighed down (with).

nepenthe [ni-PEN-thee], noun:
1. A drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient
writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or
trouble.
2. Anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness,
esp. of sorrow or trouble.

varmint (noun)
A person or an animal regarded as troublesome, unpleasant,
or despicable (regional) (offensive when used of people).

woebegone [WOE-bee-gon], adjective:
1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed
in grief or sorrow; woeful.
2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking;
dilapidated; run-down.



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I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates
through his veins, and not regular blood.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Martin Chuzzlewit_ [1843-1844]

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was
lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in
a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and
shouting 'All gods are bastards.'
--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_The Colour of Magic_

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world
being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is
asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
--Dean Rusk (1909—1994)
American politician.
Speech to the American Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia [22 October 1964].

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in
America is lighting a fire underneath his own
home.
--Harold E. Stassen (1907—2001)
Governor of Minnesota [1939—1943] who campaigned
for the Republican presidential nomination nine times.
"Where I Stand" [1947]

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stormy petrel [STOR-mee-PET-ruhl], noun:
1. Any of various small sea birds of the family Hydrobatidae.
2. One who brings discord or strife, or appears at the onset
of trouble.
Ex.: ... restless and indomitable, scouring like a stormy petrel
the angry ocean of debate.
--Lytton Strachey _Eminent Victorians_



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[Headline about U.S. election:]
Dewey Defeats Truman.
--"Chicago Tribune" [3 November 1948]

Truman's very ordinariness has today made him something
of a folk hero: a plain-speaking, straight-talking, ordinary
fellow who did what he saw as his duty without turning
his obligation into an opportunity for personal gain.
--Robert H. Farrell (1921— )
American historian, educator, and author.
_Truman: A Centenary Remembrance_ [1984]

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[Upon relieving MacArthur] Truman [...] said, characteristically,
of the hostile polls: 'I wonder how far Moses would have gone
if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have
preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel?... It isn't
polIs that count. It is right and wrong, and leadership — men with
fortitude, honesty and a belief in the right that make epochs
in the history of the world.' But gradually the rage died down,
and MacArthur's own highly emotional appearance before a
joint session of Congress was more a valedictory than a
gesture of defiance. The conviction gradually spread that
Truman had been right, and many now see the episode as
his finest hour, a forceful and perhaps long overdue
reassertion of the elective, civil power over an undoubted
military hero who had ignored the constitutional chain of
command.

The truth is, Truman kept in mind, which MacArthur did not,
that the object of US intervention in Korea was not to start a
third world war, but to prevent one. That is what it did. The
war settled down to a stalemate. Negotiations scaled down
and eventually ended (July 27, 1953) the fighting, though the
country remained divided and the cease fire line tense. The
war was costly. US casualties included 33,629 battle deaths,
20,617 non-hostile deaths, and 103,284 wounded. There
were in addition, 8177 missing and, of the 7,140 servicemen
made prisoner, only 3,746 were repatriated.

--Paul Johnson (1928— )
British historian.
_A History of the American People_ [1997] pp. 824-825

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In the 1960s, I was a proofreader for the "Savannah Morning News",
and the former President's name frequently came up in copy. To put
to bed the issue of whether or not the "S" should have a period after
it, I wrote to Mr. Truman. On January 5, 1968, he replied:

"With reference to your recent letter, regarding the 'S' in my name,
it can be used either with or without the period after it.

"I was named for my grandfathers and in order to be strictly impartial
in naming me for one or the other, I was given the letter 'S' as a middle
name."

His personal letterhead read "Harry S Truman" — no period.

--Jack Lightfoot
"Letter to the Editor" _Smithsonian_ [July 2001]

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I had heard much of President Truman's violent temper
and paroxysms of ungovernable rage, and had noted with
growing concern his increasingly indecisive handling
of the Korean situation. From strength in his original
decision to free and unite Korea, he had, step by step,
weakened into a hesitant nervousness indicative of a
state of confusion and bewilderment.

He had never been to Korea, and his ignorance of the
Far East and its peoples had become a dangerous failing
in one responsible for final decisions. It was quite
apparent his nerves were at the breaking point — not
only his nerves, but what was far more menacing in the
Chief Executive of a country at war — his nerve.

--Douglas MacArthur (1880—1964)
American general.
_Reminiscences_ [1964], "Frustration in Korea"

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Truman...assumed as a matter of course that the American
people were just folks like himself. He thus wasted no
high-falutin rhetoric upon them, but appealed directly
to their self-interest. Every one of them, he figured,
was itching for something, and he made his campaign by
the sempiternal device of engaging to give it to them.
A politico trained in a harsh but realistic school, he
naturally directed his most gaudy promises to the groups
that seemed to be most numerous, and the event proved
that he was a smart mathematician. [...]

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the
country he would have promised to provide them with free
missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
In "Baltimore Sun" [7 November 1948]
(Of Harry Truman's success in the 1948 presidential campaign.)

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I've just read your lousy review of [of a concert by Truman's daughter
Margaret] I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man
on four ulcer pay."

It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could
have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the
back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're
off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.

Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new
nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!

Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope
you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on
your ancestry.

H.S.T.

--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945—1953].
Letter to Paul Hume [6 December 1950].


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The Buck Stops Here.
--Sign on Harry Truman's desk, quoted in "Washington Post" [15 December 1946].
According to Fred R. Shapiro in _The Yale Book of Quotations_, p. 770 [2006],
"The phrase is now firmly associated with Truman but appears to have an
older history. The Reno (Nev.) "Evening Gazette" 1 Oct. 1942, printed a
photograph of a sign clearly reading THE BUCK STOPS HERE on the desk of
Army Colonel A.B. Warfield. Jonathan Lighter, editor of the "Historical Dictionary
of American Slang,"reports that he found these words in the periodical "Our
Army" from the early or mid-1930s; the exact reference remains untraced."

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I won't pass the buck.
--Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933)
American Republican statesman and President [1923—1929].
Quoted in Michael Hennessy
_From a Green Mountain Farm to the White House [1924].

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see: "BETRAYAL"
see: "CONFIDENCE"
see: "DISTRUST"
see: "EXPECTATION"
see: "FAITH, FAITHFULNESS"
see: "GULLIBLE"
see: "SUSPICION"
see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links


In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this
poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
--Aeschylus (525—456 B.C.)
Greek tragic dramatist.
_Prometheus Bound_

There's a sucker born every minute.
--Phineas T. Barnum (1810—1891)
American showman.
Attributed in Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel [17 January 1894].

Do not trust in a friend; do not put your confidence
in a companion; guard the doors of your mouth from
her who lies in your bosom.
--Bible
"Micah" 7:5

Put your trust in God, my boys,
And keep your powder dry.
--Valentine Blacker (1778—1823)
Army officer in the East India Company.
"Oliver's Advice." [1834]

The best proof of love is trust.
--attributed to Dr. Joyce Brothers [Joyce Diane Bauer] (b. 1927)
American psychologist and advice columnist.

Read carefully anything that requires your
signature. Remember the big print giveth
and the small print taketh away.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940— )
American author.
_Life's Little Instruction Book_ [1991], Maxim #176

Never trust anyone who wears a beard, a bow-tie,
two-toned shoes, sandals or sunglasses.
--Michael Caine [Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (1933— )
British actor.
In "The Times" [1992] (quoting his father's advice.)

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Trust not the heart of that man for
whom old clothes are not venerable.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Sartor Resartus_, bk. III, ch. vi [1833-1834]


The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing
for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will
thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Sartor Resartus_bk. II, ch. iv [1833-1834]

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When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust
others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth,
timid caution of age.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCLXIII [1820]

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity
is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing
so, we build the trust of those who are present.
--Stephen Covey (b. 1932)
American author.
_The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_ [1989]

Never trust a man with short legs.
Brains too near their bottoms.
--Noλl Coward (1899—1973)
English playwright, actor, and composer.
From "Tonight at 8.30", a series of ten one-act plays.

Frankly speaking it is difficult to trust the Chinese.
Once bitten by a snake you feel suspicious when you
see a piece of rope.
--Dalai Lama [Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub]
(1935— ) spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.
{Dalai Lama is Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom")
[attributed, in 1981]

Women suffer more from disappointment than men,
because they have more of faith and are naturally
more credulous.
--Marguerite de Valois (1553—1615)
Queen of France and Navarre.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 108 [1886].

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Only a woman will believe in a man who has
once been detected in fraud and falsehood.
--Alexandre Dumas (1802—1870)
French novelist and dramatist.
In Maturin M. Ballou
_Notable Thoughts about Women_ p. 290 [1882].


Women are more credulous than men.
--Alexandre Dumas (1802—1870)
French novelist and dramatist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou
_Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 390 [1882].

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Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards.
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936)
American journalist and humorist.
_Mr Dooley's Philosophy_ "Casual Observations" [1900]

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters
cannot be trusted in important affairs.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
From an April 1955 draft of a television address to be delivered on
occasion of the seventh anniversary of Israel's independence; as quoted
in Alice Calaprice & Freeman Dyson _The Ultimate Quotable Einstein_ [2010].

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Romola_, p. 443 [1886]

Let the buyer beware.
--John Fitzherbert _A Book of Husbandry_ [1523]

It is an equal Failing to trust everybody
and to trust nobody.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_, 2893, [1732]

The virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_The Vicar of Wakefield_ [1766]

The glory of Friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him with his Friendship.
--Edwin Osgood Grover (1870—1965)
American publisher and educator.
Attributing himself in _From Friend to Friend:
A Partnership in Friendship_ [1916 ed., orig. pub. 1913].

As for butter versus margarine,
I trust cows more than chemists.
--attributed to Joan Gussow
Organic-food advocate and professor.

[O]nce a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might
as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen
to the wind.
--Robert A(nson) Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Citizen of the Galaxy_ [1957]

'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero.'
Seize the day, and put the least possible
trust in tomorrow.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Odes_

Never trust the man who tells you all
his troubles but keeps from you all
his joys.
--Jewish Proverb

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier
to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
"The Rambler" (English journal) [18 December 1750]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
--Juvenal (c. 55—130)
Roman satirist.
_Satires_

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Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving
Than doubt one heart that, if believed,
Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Oh, in this mocking world, too fast,
The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth;
Better be cheated to the last
Than lose the blessed hope of truth.

--Frances Anne Kemble (1809—1893)
English-born actress and author; grandmother of Owen Wister.
"Faith"

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One day Mikoyan and I were taking a walk around
the grounds and Stalin came out on the porch of the
house. He seemed not to notice Mikoyan and me.
'I'm finished,' he said to no one in particular. 'I trust
no one, not even myself.'
--Nikita Khrushchev (1894—1971)
Soviet statesman, Premier [1958—1964].
_Khruschev Remembers_ [1971] pp. 306-307

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
--Stephen King (b. 1947)
American author known for horror novels.
_Needful Things_ [1991]

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too. . . .
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
"If" in _Rewards and Fairies_ [1910]

It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends
than to be deceived by them.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678];
maxim 84

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
"Witches and other Night-fears" in _Essays of Elia_ [1823].

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power).
_The Way of Lao-tzu_

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Be certain that he who has betrayed
thee once will betray thee again.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.
_Aphorisms on Man_ [2nd ed., 1789]


Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures
all and him least who is indifferent about all.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.
Quoted in _The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature_, vol. 2 [1818].

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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human
being; not if he is the best and wisest in the whole
world. There are lots of nice things you can do
with sand, but do not try building a house on it.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Mere Christianity_, bk. 4, ch. 7 [1952]

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
--George MacDonald (1824—1905)
Scottish author and poet.
_The Marquis of Lossie_, ch. IV [1877]

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset
that from now on I can't believe you.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever
after not believed even if they speak the truth.
--Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 B.C.— c. 50 A.D.)
The versifier of Aesop's Fables in Latin.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two
equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the
necessity of reflection.
--Jules Henri Poincarι (1854—1912)
French mathematician and philosopher of science.
_Science and Hypothsis_ [1903], author's preface

His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools:
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed
up all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't
trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and
there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a
drink."
--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_Small Gods_ [1992]

Trust, like the soul, never returns
once it is gone.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.

I think I could sum up my own position on this with the
recitation of a very brief Russian proverb: 'Doveryai no
Proveryai.' It means trust but verify.
--Ronald Reagan (1911—2004)
American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor.
Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [4 December 1987].

There are three kinds of men you must never
trust : a man who hunts south of the Thames,
a man who has soup for lunch and a man who
waxes his moustache.
--James Maude Richards (1907—1992)
English architectural writer.
_Memoirs of an Unjust Fella_ [1980]

I would rather be the man who bought the
Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
--Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.
Attributed in Laurence J. Peter _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977].

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
--Helen Rowland (1875—1950)
American writer.
_The Rubaiyat of a Bachelor_ [1915]

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience
of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the
doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians,
nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.
They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very
large admixture of insipid common sense.
--Lord Salisbury (1830—1903)
British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister [1886—92, 1895—1901]
Letter to Lord Lytton [15 June 1877].

One can't prove that one is discreet, for
by proving it one ceases to be so.
--Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sιvignι (1626—1696)
French writer whose letters constitute one of the
most celebrated collections of epistolary writing.
Letter to her daughter, in Leonard Tancock (ed.)
_Madame de Sιvignι: Selected Letters_ [1982].

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Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key. Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_All's Well That Ends Well_ [1602-1604]


The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Merchant of Venice_, V, i [1596—1598]

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that
he is not believed, but that he cannot believe
anyone else.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Quintessence of Ibsenism_ [1890], ch. 4

I was a little shocked at the faces, especially those
of the women, when Hitler finally appeared on the
balcony for a moment. They reminded me of the
crazed expressions I saw once in the back country
of Louisiana on the faces of some Holy Rollers who
were about to hit the trail. They looked up at him
as if he were a Messiah, their faces transformed
into something positively inhuman.
--William L. Shirer (1904—1993)
American journalist, historian, and novelist.
_Berlin Diary_ [1941], p. 24 [4 September 1934]

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
--Sir Philip Sidney (1554—1586)
English courtier, statesman, soldier, and poet.
Quoted in Jane Porter (ed.) _Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney_ [1807].

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he
ought to be, and who does not, upon many occasions, give
credit to tales, which not only turn out to be perfectly false,
but which a very moderate degree of reflection and attention
might have taught him could not well be true. The natural
disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and
experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom
teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all
frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is
afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he
could possibly think of believing.
--Adam Smith (1723—1790)
Scottish economist.
_The Theory of Moral Sentiments_ [1759], pt. VII , sec. IV

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is
her nature to weep when she wants her will.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou
_Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 179 [1882].

Trust that man in nothing who has
not a Conscience in everything.
--Laurence Sterne (1713—1768)
English novelist.
_Tristram Shandy_ [1760], bk. II, ch. XVII

Few things help an individual more than to place
responsibility upon him and to let him know that
you trust him.
--Booker T. Washington (1856—1915)
African-American educator.
_Up From Slavery_ [1901], ch. XI "Making Their Beds..."

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let
those few be well tried before you give them your
confidence.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
In Jared Sparks (ed.)
_The Writings of George Washington_, vol. 8 [12 vols.; 1833-37].

We have a saying in the movement that
you can't trust anybody over 30.
--Jack Weinberg (b. 1940)
American political activist.
Quoted in "S.F. Chronicle" [15 November 1964].

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit,
and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance
and control.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Money in the Bank_ [1946]

I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" [1899]

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A soldier stationed in the South Pacific wrote to his wife in the
States to please send him a harmonica to occupy his free time and
keep his mind off of the local women. The wife complied and sent
the best one she could find, along with several dozen lesson and
music books.

Rotated back home, he rushed to their home and thru the front door.
"Oh darling" he gushed, "Come here... let me look at you... let me
hold you ! Let's have a fine dinner out, then make love all night.
I've missed your lovin' so much!" The wife, keeping her distance,
said, "All in good time lover. First, let's hear you play that
harmonica."

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defalcate [di-FAL-keyt], verb:
To steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one's care.

fiduciary (adj.) [fκ-'du-shi-e-ri]
1/ Holding or overseeing something in trust.
2/ Of or related to a trust, trustee or trusteeship, as a fiduciary
relationship to a minor or a fiduciary institution that manages
financial assets.
3/ Depending on public trust or securities for its value, as a
fiduciary issue of currency.

recreant (adj.) ['re-kri-yκnt]
(1) Disloyal, unfaithful, apostate;
(2) cowardly, faint-hearted, craven.


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