Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

If theres another world he lives in bliss if there is none he made the best of this.

Afflictions sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss

My dear my native soil For whom my warmest wish to heavn is sent long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil be blest with health and peace and sweet content

Even thou who mournst the daisys fate That fate is thine no distant date Stern Ruins ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom Till crushed beneath the furrows weight Shall be thy doom

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Think when your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop What ragings must his veins convulse That still eternal gallop

Anticipation forward points the view.

But to see her was to love her Love but her and love forever.

Oh, my Luve's like a red red rose that's newly sprung in June: O, my Luve's like the melodie that's sweetly play'd in tune.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.