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Isaac D'Israeli (3)
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
174 sayings relating to experience
Roald Dahl (4)
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
278 thoughts about fear
Salvador Dali (11)
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
249 sayings about aging
John Nelson Darby (2)
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
112 quotes about respect
Bobby Darin (8)
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
198 other quotes about business
Clarence Darrow (14)
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
198 more thoughts about business
Charles Darwin (8)
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
364 wisdom & wit about best
Robertson Davies (3)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
166 views about the future
Marc Davis (2)
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
32 quotes about cars
Sammy Davis, Jr. (17)
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
32 thoughts about cars
Les Dawson (3)
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
140 thoughts about being funny
Dorothy Day (4)
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
278 more quotes regarding fear
Clarence Day (4)
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
174 other sayings about experience
Honore de Balzac (53)
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
233 sayings about being alone
Cyrano de Bergerac (2)
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
233 views relating to being alone
Rosalia de Castro (2)
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
345 more wisdom & wit about happiness
Miguel de Cervantes (21)
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
425 thoughts relating to art
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (5)
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
174 sayings about experience
Pierre de Coubertin (3)
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
43 quotes regarding equality
Charles de Gaulle (19)
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
233 more wisdom & wit about being alone
Edmond de Goncourt (2)
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
249 quotes about aging
Remy de Gourmont (2)
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
139 sayings regarding intelligence
Ninon de L'Enclos (7)
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
218 quotes regarding beauty
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (5)
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
136 sayings about dreams
Jean de la Bruyere (26)
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (90)
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
233 other sayings about being alone
Guy de Maupassant (4)
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
180 more views about marriage
Agnes de Mille (2)
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
210 more quotes regarding education
Michel de Montaigne (32)
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
249 quotes regarding aging
Charles de Montesquieu (14)
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
249 quotes about aging
Alfred de Musset (3)
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
345 thoughts regarding happiness
Marquis de Sade (12)
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
323 quotes about death
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (17)
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
44 more sayings about attitudes
Charles de Secondat (10)
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
43 wisdom & wit relating to equality
Madame de Stael (3)
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
278 quotes about fear
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (2)
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
199 more quotes about freedom
Alexis de Tocqueville (19)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
364 thoughts about best
Miguel de Unamuno (12)
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
249 quotes regarding aging
Lope de Vega (2)
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
136 quotes regarding dreams
Alfred de Vigny (2)
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
425 wisdom & wit about art
Peter De Vries (10)
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
425 quotes regarding art
James Dean (8)
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
233 more views about being alone
Eugene V. Debs (2)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
251 views about history
Thomas Dekker (3)
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
91 quotes about health
Robert Delaunay (6)
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
425 other wisdom & wit about art
W. Edwards Deming (8)
It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
364 more quotes about best
Jack Dempsey (2)
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
84 sayings about morning
John Denham (2)
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
231 quotes about poetry
Rene Descartes (11)
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
John Dewey (9)
Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
210 more views about education
Charles Dickens (26)
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
249 thoughts about aging
James Dickey (3)
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
15 thoughts about amazing
Emily Dickinson (26)
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
249 sayings about aging
Marlene Dietrich (10)
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
175 quotes about change
Ernest Dimnet (3)
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
62 quotes relating to architecture
Everett Dirksen (3)
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
245 quotes regarding money
Walt Disney (23)
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
425 more views regarding art
Benjamin Disraeli (75)
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
249 thoughts relating to aging
John Donne (10)
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
249 more quotes regarding aging
Fyodor Dostoevsky (10)
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
218 wisdom & wit regarding beauty
Norman Douglas (6)
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
William O. Douglas (6)
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
233 thoughts regarding being alone
Arthur Conan Doyle (14)
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
140 quotes regarding being funny
Theodore Dreiser (3)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
425 more quotes regarding art
John Drinkwater (5)
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
41 quotes about communication
Henry Drummond (4)
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
218 other views about beauty
John Dryden (17)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
249 views about aging
W. E. B. Du Bois (3)
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
210 other sayings regarding education
Daphne du Maurier (2)
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
345 quotes about happiness
Patrick Duffy (2)
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
38 more sayings about fatherhood
Georges Duhamel (2)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
112 other quotes about respect
John Foster Dulles (2)
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
184 sayings about government
Alexandre Dumas (4)
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
210 more quotes about education
Isadora Duncan (5)
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
174 quotes about experience
Finley Peter Dunne (3)
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
79 thoughts about food
Will Durant (25)
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
249 sayings about aging
Jimmy Durante (2)
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
233 wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Marguerite Duras (4)
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
345 more thoughts about happiness
Albrecht Durer (4)
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
218 quotes about beauty
Friedrich Durrenmatt (17)
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
249 more quotes about aging
James Dyson (22)
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
249 views about aging