Doe Quotes
16709 Doe quotes by 7013 unique authors
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
— Paul Cezanne
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the…
— Whittaker Chambers
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does…
— Chanakya
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
— Chanakya
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Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
— Kyle Chandler
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that…
— Willie Aames
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent…
— George Chapman
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
— Anton Chekhov
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
— Anton Chekhov
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
— C J Cherryh
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases…
— Lord Chesterfield
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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