Doe Quotes
16709 Doe quotes by 7013 unique authors
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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's…
— William Shenstone
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
— Josh Billings
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Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of…
— Patricia Schroeder
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God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves…
— Thomas a Kempis
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
— Gertrude Stein
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours…
— Joseph Addison
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Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.
— John Otway
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Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning…
— Ernest Hemingway
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A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in…
— Milton Berle
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In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
— Winston Churchill
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That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?
— Unknown Author
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A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than…
— John Templeton
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.
— Chuck Smith
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
— Karl A. Menninger
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but…
— Laozi
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Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
— Howard Thurman
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Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
— Unknown Author
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The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.
— Robert K. Massie
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From now on, don't do this, even for me. We don't have an employer-employee relationship right now. I'm a person and you're a person. Why…
— Unknown Author
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