All Quotes

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
‐‐ Martha Scott

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
‐‐ Saint Basil

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.
‐‐ Joe Scarborough

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
‐‐ Clive Bell

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
‐‐ Buddha

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
‐‐ Euripides

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.
‐‐ Thomas S. Monson

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
‐‐ Abigail Adams

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
‐‐ E. Joseph Cossman

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
‐‐ King Solomon

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
‐‐ Agnes Macphail

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
‐‐ Robert Ashley

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
‐‐ Chanakya

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
‐‐ Pythagoras

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
‐‐ Rabindranath Tagore

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
‐‐ Anna C. Brackett

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
‐‐ Anais Nin

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
‐‐ Epictetus

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
‐‐ Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
‐‐ Matsuo Basho

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
‐‐ Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
‐‐ Filippo Brunelleschi

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.
‐‐ Diana Lopez

Do not skip meals. Eat three meals a day and eat until you feel satisfied and comfortably full.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
‐‐ Plutarch

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
‐‐ Epicurus

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
‐‐ John Lydon

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
‐‐ Orson Pratt

Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
‐‐ Said Nursi

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
‐‐ Henry Martyn

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
‐‐ Robertson Davies

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
‐‐ Nadia Boulanger

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
‐‐ Lawrence G. Lovasik

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
‐‐ Pythagoras

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
‐‐ Elizabeth I