"It doesn't matter out here how much of an honest man you are. If people so much as don't like you, they will never believe what you say no matter what."
Pioneer and founder of New Providence, California, Nicholas Tesla, lamenting over the fact that no-one would believe him that fellow pioneer, Thomas Edison, had stolen his land, wife, wealth, and claim to the foundation of New Providence, leaving him to become a drunken drifter.
"People like crepes."