A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. — Ogden Nash
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself. — Confucius
Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea. — Shunryu Suzuki
Short Doormat Quotes
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. — Pablo Picasso
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes. — Leo Buscaglia
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. — Mark Twain
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats. — Pablo Picasso
If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME. — Robert Breault
If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it. — Suzette Haden Elgin
You're either a goddess ... or a doormat. — Pablo Picasso
You can't always be the jokester and the doormat. — Manny Montana
I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat. — Elisabetta Canalis
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first. — Oscar Wilde
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Doorman Quotes
In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police. — Cynthia Heimel
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl. — Marlene Dietrich
How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person. — Austin Butler
Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!' — Graham Norton
What if you died, and you found out that when you died, we all went to the same place. No Heaven, no Hell, doesn't matter what you did in life - you all go to the same place, regardless. I know a lot of nice people who will be really pissed off. You'll see Gandhi arguing with the doorman. — Dana Gould
Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. — Adrienne Gusoff
Doorman -- a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. — Dorothy Kilgallen
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. — Dorothy Kilgallen
My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe. — Kanye West
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. — Rebecca West
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. — Lewis B. Smedes
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships. — Doreen Virtue
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that. — Lucinda Williams
The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy. — William Proxmire
I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress. — Manisha Koirala
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals. — Suzy Kassem
You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop. — P. G. Wodehouse
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West
Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation. — Peter Schjeldahl
Paul Ryan has become a doormat...And he's become this little person who is following Romney around. — Arianna Huffington
We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home. — Dave Barry
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". — Charles Stross
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror. — Shirley Maclaine
The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat. — Ronald Reagan
Celebrities are the doormats to power. — Greg Gutfeld
[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats. — Caitlin Thomas
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse. — John Steinbeck
Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself. — Anita Moorjani
Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked -" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry." — Rick Riordan
"Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down the pyramid. "Flat!" Thoth blasted another demon, who collapsed and shriveled into a monster-shaped doormat. "Intestinal problems!" Thoth yelled. The poor demon who got zapped with that one turned green and doubled over. — Rick Riordan
It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat. — Fannie Flagg
They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley. — J. K. Rowling
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