Doug Stanhope Quotes

Do good things for other people.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about me at all. I think that's fine. I'm happy to do the work.

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Least at thine own things laugh.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.