John Astin Quotes

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

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

You’d think that he would call and encourage me after my debate before the send largest audience. Something’s going on there. I always figure it out. Something very sinister is going on.

I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

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.

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

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

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.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.