Sayingszone

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Our distrust is very expensive.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

We’re all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

It’s double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you’re blessed with twins.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins.

Twice as much to love, two blessings from above.

God touched our hearts so deep inside, our special blessing multiplied.

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Life is two-riffic with twins.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother ,I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

Constant togetherness is fine – but only for Siamese twins.

When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, “Look, twins!”

Not double trouble, but twice blessed.

I may be a twin but I’m one of a kind.

We came into the world like brother and brother And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.

Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.

[O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

An “acceptable” level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

College is the longest vacation you will ever take.

No vacation goes unpunished.

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today’s world it has become a necessity.

Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Beauty’s sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools – that’s vanity.

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.