19 Metaphors for trust

A man may give his wife the best that is in himhis love, his trust, his life's workbut it is only the best there is left.

[Ovid]; omne solum forti patria [Lat.]; self-trust is the essence of heroism

Many loved herloved her wholesomely, with a love in which trust was a large element.

12 Trust the monition Baldwin gave, Our future bliss it's truth shall prove, Life's cares the Lovers who dare brave, Shall find their rich reward in Love: 13 Baldwin, the hoary-headed Bard, I still consult when cares annoy: He own'd for me a fond regard; And calls me still his darling Boy.

Trust is a plant of slow growth with the natives, but they have learned to trust him entirely, and go to him in all their troubles as children go to a father.

While I believe that the trusts are pretty good things in theory, a lot of them have been pretty bad things in practice, and we shall be mighty slow to hook up with one.

Trust in "the merits of the Redeemer" is, after all, trust in the Immensity beyond Redeemer and redeemed.

Trust in authority is a trait of the character of children, of weakly women, and of the sick and infirm, but it is out of place among members of a thriving resolute community during the fifty or more years of their middle life.

"Trust is truer than our fears," Runs the legend through the moss, "Cain is not in added years, Nor in death is loss.

"She sez you had 'em in your power once and could made a sample on 'em but didn't, and so, sez she, I've got to live on codfish, and the flour trust is bringin' up flour so Id'no

For this tremendous fast which you are to make believe a feast, trust in each other is the one condition that may avail.

The trust in militia was a perfect curse.

" I saw a parson at his desk, Silk-gowned and linen-ruffled; The organ ceasedhe rose to preach, And smirked, and mouthed, and snuffled; He talked of gold, and called it dross, And prophesied confusion To all who loved ittold them that Their trust was all delusion.

It is well known, my lords, that publick happiness must be on a stated proportion to publick virtue; that mutual trust is the cement of society, and that no man can be trusted but as he is reputed honest.

In Psalm 46 the trust in Jehovah which Isaiah advocated has become a living force in the life of the Psalmist and of the class in behalf of which he spoke.

"Norgate," he declared solemnly, "trust is a personal matter.

Yet I cannot forbear to observe, that high rank is an aggravation of villany; that to have enjoyed the favour of his sovereign, is no defence of him that has abused it; and that high trust is an honour only to that man, who, when he lays down his office, dares stand an inquiry.

Mingled always with my love for him, my trust in him, was a tiny undercurrent of uncertainty as to the stability of my husband's affection for me.

" The trust was greatthe bancali were the governing board of the traghetti.

19 Metaphors for  trust