H. L. Mencken Quotes about Trust

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

Trust, Marriage, Mutual Interest

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

H. L. Mencken

Trust, Mutual Interest, Together

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.

H. L. Mencken

Trust, Believe, Men

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.10, Vintage

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

H. L. Mencken

Trust, Husband, Women

H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.