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Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.
 D Vine
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
 D'Hericault
Charles
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth
have both failed.
 Dada
Idi Amin
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing
else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow
the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
 Dada
Idi Amin
Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
 Dagny Taggart
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
 Daley
Mayor
 Daley
Mayor
Knowledge is power.
 Daley Richard
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
 Dali
Salvador
The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by
people who want some.
 Dam
Andries van
Most general statements are false, including this one.
 Dane
Franklin K.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
 Dangerfield
Rodney
Where there is much light there is also much shadow.
 Danton
G.J.
Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie...
 Darling Charles
General notions are generally wrong.
 Darrow
Clarence
A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Domine!
[From the fury of the norsemen deliver us, O Lord!]
 Darrow
Clarence
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 Darrow
Clarence
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Darrow
Clarence
Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities,
requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a
clogged toilet. In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as
annoying faucet drip, merely by tur Darrow
Clarence
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad
woman scarcely exists.
 Darrow
Clarence
A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top
of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
 Darwin Charles
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
 Darwin Porter
I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a
living death?
 Dass
Baba Ram
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
 Dass
Baba Ram
If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk.
If you wish to be happy for three days, get married.
If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it.
If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.
 Dave
Just remember, wherever you go, there you are.
 Dave Barry
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.
 David Bodanis
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but
that's the way to bet.
 David Niven
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
 Davis
Evan
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.
 Davis
Evan
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
 Davis
Miles
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
 Davisson
Richard
When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.
 Day
Clarence
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
 DeBalzac
Honore
A full belly makes a dull brain.
 DeGaulle
Charles
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
 Dead
The Grateful
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
 Dean
James
Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines
of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them...
Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced
only by Masters of the Universal Way of Dekker
Thomas
The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the
number of participants.
 Demosthenes
You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.
 Dennett
Daniel
The man who runs may fight again.
 Derek Bok
There must be more to life than having everything.
 Descart
But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a
brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and
lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the
phonograph, which could soo Descartes
Rene
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of
trouble.
 Dewar
Lord Thomas
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
 Dewar
Lord Thomas
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity
is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.
 Dewar
Lord Thomas Rober
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
 Dewey John
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
 Dick
Philip K.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to
watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
 Dickens
Charles
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not
take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
 Dickens
Charles
The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.
 Dickens
Charles
Business will be either better or worse.
 Dickey
James
It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.
 Dickson Paul
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
 Dictionary
Webster's Unafraid
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep
awake all day.
 Dictum
Schumacher's
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.
 Diefenbaker
John
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
 Dillinger
John
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared
for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his
infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and
upon the successful manag Diogenes
There seems no plan because it is all plan.
 Disney
Walt
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the
devil when he is the only explanation of it.
 Disney
Walt
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
 Disra Benjamin
If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.
 Disrael Benjamin
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
Dignity is like a flag. It flaps in a storm.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the
reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest
amount of hot air.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
 Disraeli Benjamin
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
 Dobbs
Waldo D.R.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got
it made.
 Dobson
Austin
There is always something new out of Africa.
 Doctor
The
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
 Dogtender The Mad
I:
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin
with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
II:
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would
probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
III:
There are  Dolph Sharp
Turn the other cheek.
 Dolph Sharp
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of
it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too
close. Like catching snakes.
 Donald N. Smith president
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
 Donatus
Aelius
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
 Donleavy
J.P.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
 Dooley
Mr.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
 Dooley
Mr.
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
 Dostoyevski
F.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
 Doug Larson
If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could
work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
 Douglas
Lord Alfred
It shall be unlawful for any suspicious person to be within the municipality.
 Douglas
Norman
In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.
 Douglas Adams
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, delve deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In work, be competent.
In action, be careful of your timing.
 Douglass
Frederick
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
 Douglass
Frederick
"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial."
 Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
 Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
 Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
 Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than
being flat broke and having a stomach ache.
 Dreshfield
Jerry
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
 Droz
Gustave
Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
 Drucker
Peter
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
 Dudley Riggs
Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.
 Duggan
B.
Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.
I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but
we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.
 Duke
Raoul
The fact that it works is immaterial.
 Dumas
... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter.
"I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers
words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him.
He looks upon the great  Dumas
Alexander
Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
 Dumas
Alexandre
Leave no stone unturned.
 Dunne
Finley Peter
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
 Durant
Will
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
 Durocher
Leo
Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose.
[The more things change, the more they remain the same.]
 Dwight
Walter
The superfluous is very necessary.
 Dwight Van de Vate
Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little
too early for anything you want to do.
 Dye W.H. Auden
Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
 Dyer
If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.
 Dyke
Henry Van
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that
could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered,
broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
 Dykstra
Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
 Dylan
Bob
If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
it to.
 Dylan
Bob
Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.
 Dylan
Bob
Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
 Dyson
Freeman
One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one
man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half
again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a
creative meeting, and the ratio c de Dave Johnson on
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses
smoking in the men's room.
 distinctly
and quite
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