The fortune of war is always doubtful. [ Seneca ]
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. [ Shakespeare ]
That anxious torture may I never feel,
Which doubtful, watches over a wandering heart.
O, who that bitter torment can reveal.
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! [ Byron ]
It is doubtful what fortune tomorrow will bring. [ Lucretius ]
The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [ Goethe ]
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. [ Proverb ]
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [ Seneca ]
In doubtful matters, courage may do much, in desperate, patience. [ Proverb ]
In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. [ Melanthon ]
His face was of that doubtful kind, That wins the eye but not the mind. [ Scott ]
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. [ Joubert ]
The poet's leaves are gathered one by one, in the slow process of the doubtful years. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others despise great future advantages to obtain present interests of a trifling nature. [ Kochefoucauld ]
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals, - so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs. [ Lowell ]
Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? [ Blair ]
Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]