Doubtful Quotes

187 Doubtful quotes by 154 unique authors

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked. — Ed Balls
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet… — Aesop
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain
Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. — John Calvin
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a… — Charles Caleb Colton
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where… — Tryon Edwards
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of… — George Wald
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim… — Mark Twain
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell
I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can… — Alan Hassenfeld
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its… — Mark Twain
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of… — William Shakespeare
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,… — Edmund Burke
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without… — Benjamin Rush
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by… — Charles Caleb Colton
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the… — Thomas Jefferson
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful… — William Shakespeare

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