Doubtful Quotes

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.

And we`ve become very doubtful of our information sources, because they`re all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Obviously, we are never going to be satisfied with a losing quarter but quite frankly we remain upbeat. The loss itself was a result of a $270,000 increase in allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and an unrealized hedging loss -- marked -- to market at the end of the quarter. As of August 31, 2005 the majority of this unrealized loss has been reversed out. However, the coffee market continues to remain extremely volatile. Beyond these two one time events, the quarter was overall a positive considering prices declined by over 20% in roughly a 30 day period.

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.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

There is another difference; you declared your independence of the English crown when it was yet very doubtful whether you would be successful.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

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.

The man that sets out to carry a cat by it`s tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.