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![]() . . . TROUBLE see: "UNHAPPINESS" for related links Every cloud has a silver lining. --"American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette" [15 December 1855] It never rains but it pours. --John Arbuthnot (16671735) 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] (18801951) 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 (18121882) 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 (18131887) American Congregational minister; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher. Attributed in "The Treasury" (mag.) [May 1901]. - 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 (18421914) 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 (18421914) 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 (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Devil's Dictionary_ [1911] - If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. --James Burgh (17141775) 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 (19141997) American author associated with the Beat Generation. _The Adding Machine_ "My Own Business" [1985] - Put you in this pickle. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, bk. 1, ch. 5 [1605] Forewarned forearmed. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 2, bk. 3, ch. 10 [1615] - [Credo of fictional detective Philip Marlowe:] Trouble is My Business. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) 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 (18741936) 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 (18661932) 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 (17311800) 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 (15621619) 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 (18261906) American writer. _Seacliff or The Mystery of the Westervelts_ [1859] My life is one demd horrid grind! --Charles Dickens (18121870) 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] - 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 (18031882) 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 (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Attributed in "The American Mercury" [1956]. - He who multiplies his possessions multiplies his cares. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [September 1744] It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. --Thomas Fuller (16081661) English churchman and historian. _A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine_ [1650] If afflictions refine some, they consume others. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. _Gnomologia_ [1732] One may not reach the dawn save by path of night. --Kahlil Gibran (18831931) Lebanese poet. _Sand and Foam_ [1926] In all the woes that curse our race There is a lady in the case. --W. S. Gilbert (18361911) 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 (17961865) 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. (18411935) 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 (18541937) American journalist and author. Attributed in "Forbes" [1980]. - God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) 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 (18591915) 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 (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." In "Philistine" [December 1909]. - How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. "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 (18801968) 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 (19262004) 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 (16131680) _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 (19081973) 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 (19401980) & 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 (18071882) 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 (18141889) 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 (18781937) 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 (18911980) 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 (19081950) Italian novelist, poet, and translator. _This Business of Living: Diaries, 19351950_ [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 (18781967) 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] - Things past redress are now with me past care. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist, _Richard II_, II, iii [1595] Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. --William Shakespeare (15641616) 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 (15641616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_, III. i [1601] The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Lear_, IV, i, 29 [16051606] - 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 (18951979) 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 (18341892) 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 (19021968) American novelist. [The ideal client is] the very wealthy man in very great trouble. --John W. Sterling (18441918) 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 (18091892) 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] (18351910) 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 (7019 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) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. --William Arthur Ward (19211994) American college administrator and author. Quoted in Norman Vincent Peale _Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm_ [1981]. - 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] - 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.' - 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. ![]() . . see: "UNHAPPINESS" for related links I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. --Charles Dickens (18121870) 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 (19091994) 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 (19072001) Governor of Minnesota [19391943] who campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination nine times. "Where I Stand" [1947] ----- 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_ ![]() ![]() TRUMAN (HARRY S) . . see: "POLITICS" for related links see: "PEOPLE" for related links [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] ^ [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 ^ - 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] - - 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 (18801964) American general. _Reminiscences_ [1964], "Frustration in Korea" - 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 (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. In "Baltimore Sun" [7 November 1948] (Of Harry Truman's success in the 1948 presidential campaign.) - - 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 (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. Letter to Paul Hume [6 December 1950]. - 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." & note: I won't pass the buck. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. Quoted in Michael Hennessy _From a Green Mountain Farm to the White House [1924]. - - ![]() ![]() TRUST . . 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 (525456 B.C.) Greek tragic dramatist. _Prometheus Bound_ There's a sucker born every minute. --Phineas T. Barnum (18101891) 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 (17781823) 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.) - Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) 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 (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. _Sartor Resartus_bk. II, ch. iv [1833-1834] - 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 (17801832) 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 (18991973) 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 (15531615) Queen of France and Navarre. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 108 [1886]. - Only a woman will believe in a man who has once been detected in fraud and falsehood. --Alexandre Dumas (18021870) French novelist and dramatist. In Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts about Women_ p. 290 [1882]. Women are more credulous than men. --Alexandre Dumas (18021870) French novelist and dramatist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 390 [1882]. - Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards. --Finley Peter Dunne (18671936) 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 (18791955) 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] (18191880) 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 (16541734) 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 (17281774) 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 (18701965) 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 (19071988) 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] (658 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 (17091784) 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. 55130) Roman satirist. _Satires_ - 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 (18091893) English-born actress and author; grandmother of Owen Wister. "Faith" - 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 (18941971) Soviet statesman, Premier [19581964]. _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 (18651936) 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 (16131680) 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 (17751834) 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_ - Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) 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 (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. Quoted in _The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature_, vol. 2 [1818]. - 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 (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _Mere Christianity_, bk. 4, ch. 7 [1952] To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. --George MacDonald (18241905) 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 (18441900) 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 (18541912) 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 (8543 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 (19112004) American President [19811989] 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 (19071992) 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] (18791935) 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 (18751950) 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 (18301903) British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister [188692, 18951901] 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 (16261696) 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]. - 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 (15641616) 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 (15641616) English dramatist. _The Merchant of Venice_, V, i [15961598] - The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) 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 (19041993) 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 (15541586) 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 (17231790) 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 (17131768) 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 (18561915) 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 (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. 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 (18811975) 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 (18651939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" [1899] - 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." ----- 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. end page | TABLOIDS - TALENT | TALK - TAYLOR (ELIZABETH) | TAXATION | TEACHERS / TEACHING | TEAMWORK - TELEVANGELISTS | TELEVISION - TELEVISION SHOWS | TEMPER - THANKSGIVING | TERRORISM | THATCHER - THINKING | THOUGHT POLICE - THRIFT | TIME | TIME TRAVEL - TODAY | TOLERANCE - TOYS | TRADITION - TRANSIENCE | TRAVEL | TREACHERY - TRIVIA | TROUBLE - TRUST | TRUTH | TRYING - TYRANNY | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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