Does Quotes

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.