quotes on trust in a relationship

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~Norm Crosby



I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. ~Author Unknown



Every writer I know has trouble writing. ~Joseph Heller



The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. ~William James



A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. ~James McNeill Whistler My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder



No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961 No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982



As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown



The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~Carol Matthau



Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King



Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968



One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882



If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough. ~VP Pappy



The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ~J. Russel Lynes



Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown



Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. ~Sara Ebenreck, American Forests



Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed



When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. ~August Strindberg



Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson