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 him.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
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 we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.
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