A Quote by William Proxmire

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

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William Proxmire
American - Politician
November 11, 1915 - December 15, 2005

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

Lewis B. Smedes

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Charles Dickens

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Leo Buscaglia

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can't get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it... at the state's cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.

Phil Gingrey

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

Pablo Picasso

You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

Manny Montana

This new movie, 'Full Moon in Blue Water,' I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn't like this woman. She was just a doormat.

Teri Garr

...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!

Arthur Rimbaud

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

Amanda Harlech

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.