Evil is soon believed. [ Proverb ]
I know in whom I have believed. [ Motto ]
Who against hope believed in hope. [ Bible ]
That which is easily done is soon believed. [ Proverb ]
Who never doubted never half believed,
Where doubt, there truth is - 'tis her shadow. [ Bailey ]
What is much desired is not believed when it comes. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. [ Montaigne ]
Affirmations are apter to be believed than negations. [ Proverb ]
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. [ Jesus ]
We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would work us harm. [ Ovid ]
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. [ Ovid ]
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [ Lucan ]
No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed. [ Carlyle ]
In one thing men of all ages are alike; they have believed obstinately in themselves. [ Jacobi ]
The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived. [ O. A. Brownson ]
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius and soothe envy of conscious mediocrity. [ Macaulay ]
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. [ Seneca ]
I have never believed that friendship supposed the obligation of hating those whom your friends did not love, and I believe rather it obliges me to love those whom they love. [ Morellet ]
There are strange coincidences in life: they occur so a propos that the strongest minds are impressed, and ask if that mysterious and inexorable fatality in which the ancients believed, is not really the law that governs the world. [ Alfred Mercier ]
Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]