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Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second
marriage.
[Lat., Les soupcons importuns
Sont d'un read more
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second
marriage.
[Lat., Les soupcons importuns
Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.]
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time
without coming to a conclusion is read more
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time
without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment read more
I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, read more
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.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the
kite the covered hook.
[Lat., Cautus read more
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the
kite the covered hook.
[Lat., Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque
Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum.]