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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
 D Vine
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
 D'Hericault
Charles
Events are not affected, they develop.
 Dada
Idi Amin
We have art that we do not die of the truth.
 Dada
Idi Amin
A sinking ship gathers no moss.
 Dagny Taggart
Never have so many understood so little about so much.
 Daley
Mayor
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to
stick to one thing till it gets there.
 Daley
Mayor
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
 Daley Richard
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
 Dali
Salvador
You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the
Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the
parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
 Dam
Andries van
"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is
weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me
the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,
unfathomable; my interest has been to  Dane
Franklin K.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first
thought of.
 Dangerfield
Rodney
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.
 Danton
G.J.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient
evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
 Darling Charles
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
 Darrow
Clarence
L'hazard ne favorise que l'esprit prepare.
 Darrow
Clarence
The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
 Darrow
Clarence
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
 Darrow
Clarence
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is
lightly greased.
 Darrow
Clarence
One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.
 Darrow
Clarence
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
 Darwin Charles
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
 Darwin Porter
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
 Dass
Baba Ram
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
 Dass
Baba Ram
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt
of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He
brought death into the world.
 Dave
A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul.
 Dave Barry
So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
 David Bodanis
... [concerning quotation marks] even if we *___did* quote anybody in this
business, it probably would be gibberish.
 David Niven
I'll never get off this planet.
 Davis
Evan
There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is
to like it rationally.
 Davis
Evan
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]
or
[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]
 Davis
Miles
"You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks."
 Davisson
Richard
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 Day
Clarence
"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world
conquerors."
 DeBalzac
Honore
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
 DeGaulle
Charles
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
 Dead
The Grateful
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
 Dean
James
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would
all be millionaires.
 Dekker
Thomas
The road to Hades is easy to travel.
 Demosthenes
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
 Dennett
Daniel
Solipsists of the World... you are already united.
 Derek Bok
Necessity has no law.
 Descart
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
 Descartes
Rene
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
 Dewar
Lord Thomas
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
 Dewar
Lord Thomas
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
 Dewar
Lord Thomas Rober
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
 Dewey John
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
 Dick
Philip K.
Don't go to bed with no price on your head.
 Dickens
Charles
"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
you believe?!"
 Dickens
Charles
Work Hard.
Rock Hard.
Eat Hard.
Sleep Hard.
Grow Big.
Wear Glasses If You Need 'Em.
 Dickens
Charles
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
 Dickey
James
We are what we pretend to be.
 Dickson Paul
[District Attorneys] learn in District Attorney School that there are
two sure-fire ways to get a lot of favorable publicity:
(1) Go down and raid all the lockers in the local high school and
confiscate 53 marijuana cigarettes and put them in a Dictionary
Webster's Unafraid
If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.
 Dictum
Schumacher's
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
 Diefenbaker
John
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
 Dillinger
John
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to
make it shorter.
 Diogenes
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp
the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at
a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
 Disney
Walt
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."
 Disney
Walt
There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break
about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get
about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer and the poor
get it in the winter.
 Disra Benjamin
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid,
stable business.
 Disrael Benjamin
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a
great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures.
I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment.
I have given up everything I was aske Disraeli
Benjamin
To teach is to learn twice.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
Nasrudin returned to his village from the imperial capital, and the villagers
gathered around to hear what had passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, "I
only want to say that the King spoke to me." All the villagers but the
stupidest ran off to spr Disraeli Benjamin
The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.
 Dobbs
Waldo D.R.
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
 Dobson
Austin
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
 Doctor
The
We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.
 Dogtender The Mad
The Worst Car Hire Service
When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck
as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up
shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California.
He put on a cap and lo Dolph Sharp
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change.
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
 Dolph Sharp
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
 Donald N. Smith president
We're all in this alone.
 Donatus
Aelius
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
 Donleavy
J.P.
A yawn is a silent shout.
 Dooley
Mr.
"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."
 Dooley
Mr.
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
 Dostoyevski
F.
[He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had
a complete set.
 Doug Larson
If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there
better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.
 Douglas
Lord Alfred
Never promise more than you can perform.
 Douglas
Norman
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea.
 Douglas Adams
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
 Douglass
Frederick
When alerted to an intrusion by tinkling glass or otherwise, 1) Calm
yourself 2) Identify the intruder 3) If hostile, kill him.
Step number 3 is of particular importance. If you leave the guy alive
out of misguided softheartedness, he will repay y Douglass
Frederick
If men are not afraid to die,
it is of no avail to threaten them with death.
If men live in constant fear of dying,
And if breaking the law means a man will be killed,
Who will dare to break the law?
There is always an official executioner.
If Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
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.
 Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the men are strong, the women are pretty,
and the children are above-average.
 Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex,
no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife.
 Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students
who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize
it in order to protect themselves.
 Dreshfield
Jerry
What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?
 Droz
Gustave
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
 Drucker
Peter
Eeny, Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak!
 Dudley Riggs
Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Various signs in Poland:
Right turn toward immediate outside.
Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons.
Five o'clock tea at all hours.
In a men's washroom in Sidney:
 Duggan
B.
Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
 Duke
Raoul
... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce
Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing
I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody
gets handed a name like "H.  Dumas
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
 Dumas
Alexander
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
 Dumas
Alexandre
Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
 Dunne
Finley Peter
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
 Durant
Will
When in doubt, tell the truth.
 Durocher
Leo
Just close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to
yourself, `There's no place like home.'
 Dwight
Walter
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward
the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the
case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by
crying babies smoking inexpensiv Dwight Van de Vate
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
 Dye W.H. Auden
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson
Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate.
Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and
great effort pushing boulders into a single Dyer
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
 Dyke
Henry Van
Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness
of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule."
 Dykstra
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.
 Dylan
Bob
Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
 Dylan
Bob
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
 Dylan
Bob
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
 Dyson
Freeman
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
 de Dave Johnson on
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
 distinctly
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According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in
America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth.
Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could
beat up their  Letterman
David
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