“Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker.”
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)
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Robert Jordan305
American writer 1948–2007Related quotes
“Fear makes men believe the worst.”
Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
IV, 3, 22.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer
Beguiled
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
Appearance on Larry King Live http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/24/lkl.00.html, (24 September 2002) <br class="br">2000s, 2002
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”
Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Letter to William Eustis http://books.google.com/books?id=S088AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319 (22 June 1809), published in Writings of John Quincy, Adams (1914), The Macmillan company. <br class="br">Variant: All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
