Doe Quotes
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I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.
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A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
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Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
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A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
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I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
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What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
