Doe Quotes - Page 396

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"

There's a new Osama bin Laden video. He's the only person that is looking thin during the holidays. How does he do it? I think he's going to Jenny Craig.

I don’t like goodbyes, NBC does.

I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.

Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does.

The hype that follows me doesn't bug me. I expect more out of myself than anyone else does, that's for sure.

Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list.

I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I'd own the world by now.

A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.