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da Vinci, Leonardo
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Dalai Lama
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Dalai Lama
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Dalai Lama
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Dale, Barbara
Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
Daly, Mary
You become courageous by doing courageous acts . . . . Courage is a habit.
Dandemis
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dangerfield, Rodney
Life is just a bowl of pits.
Daniels, Josephus
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Danish Proverb
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Proverb
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Darrow, Clarence
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
Davis, Bette
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Davis, Bette
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Davis, Evan
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
Davis, William
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
Day, Dorothy
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
de Angelis, Barbara
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
de Beauvior, Simone
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
de Beauvoir, Simone
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
de Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
de Gaultier, Jules
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
de la Rochefoucald, Francois
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.
de Montaigne, Michel
The evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
de Secondat, Charles
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
de Staël, Madame Germaine
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
de Staël, Madame Germaine
Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.
de Staël, Madame Germaine
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ and the difference of things that are alike.
de Tencin, Madame
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
de Vichy-Chaconne, Marie
It is only the first step that is difficult.
Dement, William
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Deming, W. Edwards
Learning is not compulsory . . . neither is survival.
Descartes, Rene
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Dickinson, Emily
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Dickinson, Emily
Tell all the truth but tell it slant, success in circuit lies.
Dickinson, Emily
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Dickinson, Emily
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Dietrich, Marlene
It is the friends that you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Dillard, Annie
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Dillard, Annie
Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to Hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you didn't know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
Diller, Phyllis
Cleaning the house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Diller, Phyllis
I descended from a very long line my mother foolishly listened to.
Dinesen, Isak
The cure for anything is salt water&emdash;sweat, tears, or the sea.
Dirac, Paul
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Disreali, Benjamin
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Never complain and never explain.
Disraeli, Benjamin
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Dobie, Frank James
Luck is being ready for the chance.
Don Juan
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.
Don Marquis
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Dowd, Maureen
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Dowdeswell, Jane
If we believed the media we would think the only significant relationship in our lives is a romantic one. Yet sisterhood is probably the one that will last longer than any other . . . . A husband comes and goes, but a sister will always be around. She is someone to look up to, not for shallow reasons, like worldly success, but for their sensitivity and sensibility.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dressler, Marie
It's not how old you are, but how you are old.
Dryden, John
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Drucker, Peter
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Drucker, Peter
The computer is a moron.
Du Bois, W.E. B.
Throughout all the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope&emdash;a faith in the ultimate justice of things . . . that sometime, somewhere, men will judge by their souls and not by their skins. Is such a hope justified? Do the Sorrow Songs sing true?
du Maurier, Dame Daphne
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Dumas, Alexandre
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight it in order to conquer it.
Dunne, Peter Finley
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Durante, Jimmy
I hate music, especially when it's played.
Durrenmatt, Friedrich
What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
Durrenmatt, Friedrich
What was once thought can never be unthought.
Dwight, Timothy
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
Dylan, Bob
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed each night and in between does what he wants to.
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