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• A firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.  Oxford Dictionary
• To believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make. David Richo
• The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.” David Richo
• Intimacy,  Connection,  Vulnerability,  Principles for healthy relationships,  Loyalty,  Respect,  Faith, Trust in God
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Being able to trust in others brings great rewards

• Trust is the highest form of human motivation. Stephen Covey
• Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald
• It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely. Jeff Goldblum
• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot
• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. M. Forster
• Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. John Harold
• By mutual confidence and mutual aid – great deeds are done, and great discoveries made. Homer
• Trust is a great force multiplier. Tom Ridge
• Trust and faith brings joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential. Joyce Meyer
• Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities. Robert C. Solomon

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Trust is the glue in human relationships

• Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey
• Quality relationships are built on principles – especially the principle of trust. Stephen Covey
• Quality relationships are built on principles – especially the principle of trust. And trust grows out of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep commitments, to share resources, to be caring and responsible, to belong, to love unconditionally. Stephen Covey
• Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. Robert Baden-Powell
• Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people. Rachel Joy Scott
• Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. John Harold
• Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. Albert Einstein
• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. H. L. Mencken
• Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships. Robert C. Solomon
• I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. Henry David Thoreau
• There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets. Robert Brault
• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway
• The roles we play in each other’s lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us– the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share. Oprah Winfrey
• When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb. Patanjali
• Friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it’s the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In business and in family relationships, remember that the most important thing is trust. Jackson Brown, Jr
• Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. Henry Ward Beecher
• Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey  
• Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Paul Young
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Showing trust in someone tends to bring out the best in them

• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. Henry Lewis Stimson
• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. David Armistead
• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. Henry L. Stimson
• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington

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Where there is trust, love can flourish

• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. Barbara Smith
• You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. Robert Brault
• If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. Rita Dove
• Love cannot live where there is no trust. Edith Hamilton
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To be trusted is life’s greatest compliment

• To be loved and trusted by those who know us best is life’s greatest compliment. Jack Anthony
• To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. George MacDonald
• The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers

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We pay a price for not trusting anyone

• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. Eric Hoffer
• A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold MacMillan
• A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted. Jerome Blattner
• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough. Frank H. Crane
• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene
• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
• We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.  Walter Anderson
• You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. Anton Chekhov
• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? S. Eliot
• He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. Berthold Auerbach
• Our distrust is very expensive. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life. Georg Feuerstein
• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. Lemony Snicket
• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. Buddha
• The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans. David Richo
• In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold Macmillan
• But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene

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It is better to be occasionally deceived than to be continually distrustful

• It is more shameful to distrust your friends than it is to be deceived by them. François de La Rochefoucauld
• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. C. Forbes
• Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. La Rochefoucauld
• Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. Norman Macdonald
• There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. Edwin Hubbell Chapin
• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
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The cost of breaching trust can be very high

• I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.  Friedrich Nietzsche
• Trust is like a vase… once it’s broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
• When mistrust comes in, love goes out. Irish Sayings
• It’s hard to trust someone the 2nd time around after they already gave you one reason not to trust them. Amarjeet Das

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Trust grows out of keeping commitments and being caring and loving

• Quality relationships are built on principles – especially the principle of trust. And trust grows out of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep commitments, to share resources, to be caring and responsible, to belong, to love unconditionally. Stephen Covey
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Integrity and honesty builds trust

• There is always room for those who can be relied upon to deliver the goods when they say they will. Napoleon Hill
• When we consistently do the things that align with our highest vision of ourselves—whether it’s getting up early to meditate or to exercise or to read or whatever—we build a deep level of self- trust that creates a magical energy. Brian Johnson
• Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. John Fellows Akers
• The glue that holds all relationships together is trust, and trust is based on integrity. Brian Tracy
• Truth builds trust. Marilyn Suttle
• There can be no friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity. Samuel Johnson
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Reliability builds trust

• A true friend never breaches the trust of his companion or stabs in his back. He is trustworthy and reliable. One should therefore always try to be a true and reliable friend.   Sam Veda
• There is always room for those who can be relied upon to deliver the goods when they say they will. Napoleon Hill

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Character builds trust

• One of the keys to your influence and your effectiveness in communicating your message to others is your example and conduct. Your example flows naturally out of your character—the kind of person you truly are—and not who others say you are or who you may want others to think you are. Your character is constantly communicating to others who you are. Because of what your character communicates, people will either trust or distrust you and your efforts with them. Stephen Covey
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Loyalty builds trust

• “Dumbledore’s man through and through, aren’t you Potter?”  “Yeah I am,” said Harry. “Glad we straightened that out.”   K. Rowling
• We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. Cornel West
• We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. K. Chesterton
• Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. Milan Kundera
• Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others. Ada Velez-Boardley
• You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. Jeffrey Gitomer
• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. R. Tolkien
• Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. Josiah Royce
• Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal. Maurice Franks
• Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life. Napoleon Hill
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To create trust, you need to make deposits into the emotional bank account

• The Emotional Bank Account is a metaphor that describes the amount of trust you build up in a relationship. Much like a financial bank account, deposits are made and withdrawals are taken from an Emotional Bank Account. When you do something positive for another person, it can be a major deposit for that person. Deposits build a reserve of goodwill and trust. On the other hand, when you do something negative toward another person, you make a withdrawal. When withdrawals exceed deposits, the account is overdrawn and the level of trust deteriorates. With your relationships, it’s vital that you make continual deposits in order to sustain a high level of trust. Stephen Covey
• The quality of the relationship depends on what you put into it. Keeping promises, being courteous and kind, offering support, listening and taking time for the other person are just a few ways to make deposits.  Stephen Covey
• Make deposits into the Emotional Bank Accounts of your key relationships, and nurture the people you are close to. Success and harmony at home precede all other successes. Stephen Covey
• Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level. Robert C. Solomon

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Learning to trust can be difficult

• Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks. Isaac Watts
• All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal. Robert C. Solomon

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Don’t trust blindly but use your reason

• It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. English Proverb
• Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan
• Faith must be enforced by reason. Mahatma Gandhi
• Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal
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Trust words more than actions

• I never trust people’s assertions, I always judge of them by their actions. Ann Radcliffe
• I dont trust words, I trust actions. Mitchell Perry
• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler
• Don’t fall for words; fall for actions.
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Trust in yourself most of all…

• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Golda Meir
• Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. Grantland Rice
• Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I have to trust what I do and then do it. Ednita Nazario
• I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. Barbara Streisand
• Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. Natalie Goldberg
• Trust your ability! Itzhak Perlman
• We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we’re going. And get the job done. Wilma Mankiller
• Trust that little voice in your head that says “Wouldn’t it be interesting if..”; And then do it. Duane Michals
• I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it. Sarah McLachlan
• Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• …in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. R.R. Tolkien
• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Garth Henrich
• Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When I’m trusting and being myself… everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. Shakti Gawain
• Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. Cherie-Carter Scotts
• I shall trust myself and listen to my inner voice. Marelisa Fabrega
• Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
• When we consistently do the things that align with our highest vision of ourselves—whether it’s getting up early to meditate or to exercise or to read or whatever—we build a deep level of self- trust that creates a magical energy. Brian Johnson
• The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.” David Richo

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… especially your intuition

• The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. Gisele Bundchen
• I always trust my gut reaction; it’s always right. Kiana Tom
• Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Joyce Brothers
• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. Billy Wilder
• Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
• Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. Claudia Black
• When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble. Angelina Jolie
• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown
• Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust in a higher power

• In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul. David Wilkerson
• Trust in God – she will provide. Emmeline Pankhurst
• Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. Roy Acuff
• Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. Lawrence Welk
• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible. Ruth Bell Graham
• I let go and trust that all is happening perfectly. Susan Jeffers
• Worry, is in effect, saying to God I don’t trust you. John Loftness
• I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much. Mother Teresa
• Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way. [Proverbs 3:5, 6]
• When you let go of everything you think you know and just trust, life has a way of working itself out that’s better than you could ever imagine. Jackson Kiddard
• Can anyone think of believing in God without trusting Him? Is it possible to trust in God for the big things like forgiveness and eternal life, and then refuse to trust Him for the little things like clothing and food?  Oswald Hoffmann
• For the rest of my life I’m going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered. Nancy Parker Brummett

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Trust in the divine order of the universe and your life’s unfolding

• As our awareness begins to shift, old patterns are beginning to break down and we lose our familiar points of reference. We need to let go and flow with events, not knowing the outcome but trusting in divine purpose. June McLeod
• But where we cannot understand we may trust. As I wandered in the wilderness of “ups and downs,” as I descended from Transfiguration Mounts to deep Valleys of Shadows, and then ascended again, and yet was never quite lost, I learned more and more how to trust; until in time I came to know that ‘all things work together for good’ to those who work with them. Elizabeth Towne
• Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences – good or bad – with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love. Susan Jeffers
• I let go and trust that all is happening perfectly. Susan Jeffers
• I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life’s bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right. Oprah Winfrey
• Trust life to unfold knowing you’ll end up where you need to be
• We may not know where life will take us, but we can trust that wherever it may be, we will have the strength and stamina to stay afloat. Every turn of the tide offers us opportunities for learning, growth, and adventure, so go with the flow. Amanda Harvey
• When things don’t seem to go my way, I let go of my attachment to how I think they should be, trusting that I am not seeing the big picture. If I knew the big picture, I would understand that there is a reason for things unfolding the way they are, and that the cosmos has a plan for me much grander than anything I have conceived. Deepak Chopra
• When you let go of everything you think you know and just trust, life has a way of working itself out that’s better than you could ever imagine. Jackson Kiddard
• You may not be able to see what is ahead of you, but all you have to do is trust. There are miracles and magic waiting for you right now.  Joelene Setterfield
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• Trust not too much to appearances. Virgil
• Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? Sydney Madwed
• Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. Doris Lessing
• Trust everybody but cut the cards. Finley Peter Dunne
• Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. Georges Duhamel
• How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? Mary Renault
• Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus
• Never trust sheep. Ryan Stiles
• Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. Eubie Blake
• You can’t trust anybody with power. Newt Gingrich
• Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. John Churton Collins
• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop
• The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madiso
• A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole. Titus Maccius Plautus
• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie
• Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. Oliver Cromwell
• Don’t trust anyone over 30. Pat Boone
• No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Charles Caleb Colton
• Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. Johann K. Lavater
• When what you hear and what you see don’t match, trust your eyes. Dale Renton
• Trust not in him that seems a saint. Thomas Fuller
• Trust not to outward show. Juvenal   
• Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. Lavater   

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• Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.  David Broder
• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. Joan Gussow
• Beware of the Dog. The Cat is Not Trustworthy Either.   Sign
• Democracy is like a tambourine– not everyone can be trusted with it.  John Oliver
• Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Henry David Thoreau
• Don’t get me wrong I believe in God; I just don’t trust anybody who works for him.  Jack Coen
• He is so stupid you can’t trust him with an idea.  John Steinbeck
• How Do they say “F**k You” in Hollywood? “Trust Me…”
• I believe in God; I just don’t trust anyone who works for him.
• I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.  Joe E. Lewis
• I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle; I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.  Mother Teresa
• I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark.  Duncan Spaeth
• I never trust a man under sheets.  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• I never trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket.  Lyndon Johnson
• I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.  Troy Kennedy-Martin
• I would rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.  William F. Buckley
• I wouldn’t trust him to sit on a toilet the right way.  David Feherty
• I’m from Los Angeles. I don’t trust any air I can’t see.   Bob Hope
• If I had my way any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.  L. Mencken
• In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. Tori Amos
• Isn’t it odd the way everyone automatically assumes that the goo in soap dispensers is always soap? I like to fill mine with mustard, just to teach people a lesson in trust.
• It’s funny how one person can make you never trust anybody.
• Never trust a dog to watch your food.
• Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.  Helen Rowland
• Never trust a man that says, “Trust me.” and never trust a woman that says “It’s fine.”
• Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on. Billy Connolly
• Never trust a man with short legs… his brain’s too near his bottom. Noel Coward
• Nobody believes the official spokesman but everybody trusts an unidentified source.  Ron Nessen
• On one issue at least men and women agree: they both distrust women.  L. Mencken
• Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it’s really no fun lying to them anymore.  Norm
• One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. Oscar Wilde
• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick – a totally featureless fish that doesn’t have eyeballs or fins.  Dave Barry
• The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.  Winston Churchill
• The relationship between the Welsh and English is based on trust and understanding. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them.  Dudley Wood
• Trust everybody, but cut the cards. Finley Peter Dunne
• Trust me ladies if you knew even for a second how we men really look at you you would never stop slapping us.  Larry Miller
• Trust your husband, adore your husband and get as much as you can in your own name.  Joan Rivers
• Why don’t you trust me?, she texted both the guys simultaneously.
• You can’t trust water: even a straight stick turns crooked in it.  C. Fields

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