Ani DiFranco Quotes

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.’ (Syn)

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

It is important not to trust people too much.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

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

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

Be on guard against your friends.