Isaac D'Israeli (3)
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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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.
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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.
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John Nelson Darby (2)
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Charles Darwin (8)
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Robertson Davies (3)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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Marc Davis (2)
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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Sammy Davis, Jr. (17)
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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Les Dawson (3)
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
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Dorothy Day (4)
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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Clarence Day (4)
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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Honore de Balzac (53)
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (2)
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
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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.
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Miguel de Cervantes (21)
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (5)
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Pierre de Coubertin (3)
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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Charles de Gaulle (19)
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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.
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Remy de Gourmont (2)
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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Ninon de L'Enclos (7)
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca (5)
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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Jean de la Bruyere (26)
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (90)
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Alphonse de Lamartine (8)
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Guy de Maupassant (4)
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Agnes de Mille (2)
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Michel de Montaigne (32)
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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.
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Alfred de Musset (3)
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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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.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (17)
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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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.
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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.
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (2)
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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Alexis de Tocqueville (19)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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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.
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Lope de Vega (2)
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
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Alfred de Vigny (2)
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Peter De Vries (10)
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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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.
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Eugene V. Debs (2)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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Thomas Dekker (3)
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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Robert Delaunay (6)
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
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W. Edwards Deming (8)
It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Jack Dempsey (2)
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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John Denham (2)
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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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.
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John Dewey (9)
Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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Charles Dickens (26)
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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Emily Dickinson (26)
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Marlene Dietrich (10)
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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Ernest Dimnet (3)
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Everett Dirksen (3)
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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Walt Disney (23)
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Benjamin Disraeli (75)
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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John Donne (10)
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (10)
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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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.
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William O. Douglas (6)
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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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.
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Theodore Dreiser (3)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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John Drinkwater (5)
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Henry Drummond (4)
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
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John Dryden (17)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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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.
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Daphne du Maurier (2)
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Patrick Duffy (2)
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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Georges Duhamel (2)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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John Foster Dulles (2)
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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Alexandre Dumas (4)
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Isadora Duncan (5)
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
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Finley Peter Dunne (3)
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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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.
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Jimmy Durante (2)
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
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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.
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Albrecht Durer (4)
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt (17)
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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James Dyson (22)
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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