Doe Quotes - Page 213

The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.