Better to be occasionally cheated
than perpetually suspicious.
?B C Forbes
I have a strong suspicion . . . that much
that passes for constant love is a golded-
up moment walking in its sleep.
?Zora Neale Hurston
There is one safeguard known generally
to the wise, which is an advantage and
security to all, but especially to democracies
as against despots - suspicion.
?Demosthenes
There is no rule more invariable than that we are
paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
?Henry David Thoreau
He that is already corrupt is naturally
suspicious, and he that becomes
suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
?Samuel Johnson
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
?Gotthold Lessing
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right;
more often unjust than just. It is no friend to
virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
?Hosea Ballou
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls,
and the bane of all good society.
?Thomas Payne
