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Isaac D'Israeli (3)
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
174 quotes 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.
277 quotes relating to 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 quotes relating to aging
John Nelson Darby (2)
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
112 sayings about respect
Bobby Darin (8)
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
197 more quotes about business
Clarence Darrow (14)
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
197 other quotes about business
Charles Darwin (8)
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
364 more 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.
165 sayings 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.
30 other thoughts relating to cars
Alexander Jackson Davis (2)
I am but an architectural composer.
62 other thoughts about architecture
Sammy Davis, Jr. (17)
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
30 quotes about cars
Les Dawson (3)
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
138 more views regarding 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.
277 other thoughts regarding fear
Clarence Day (4)
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
174 other quotes about experience
Honore de Balzac (53)
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
233 more sayings about being alone
Cyrano de Bergerac (2)
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
233 more sayings about 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 quotes about happiness
Miguel de Cervantes (21)
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
424 other quotes regarding art
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (5)
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
174 other views about experience
Pierre de Coubertin (3)
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
43 more wisdom & wit about equality
Charles de Gaulle (19)
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
233 more thoughts 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 other quotes regarding aging
Remy de Gourmont (2)
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
139 quotes regarding intelligence
Ninon de L'Enclos (7)
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
218 quotes about beauty
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (5)
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
136 wisdom & wit regarding dreams
Jean de la Bruyere (26)
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
233 more wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (90)
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
Alphonse de Lamartine (8)
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
174 wisdom & wit about experience
Guy de Maupassant (4)
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
180 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts about education
Michel de Montaigne (32)
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
249 other thoughts about 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 regarding aging
Alfred de Musset (3)
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
345 thoughts about 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.
321 more wisdom & wit about death
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (17)
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
44 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 other 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.
277 more quotes about fear
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (2)
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
199 quotes relating to freedom
Alexis de Tocqueville (19)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
364 quotes relating to 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 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Lope de Vega (2)
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
136 views about dreams
Alfred de Vigny (2)
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
424 more quotes about art
Peter De Vries (10)
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
424 sayings about 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 quotes regarding being alone
Eugene V. Debs (2)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
250 views relating to history
Thomas Dekker (3)
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
91 quotes relating to health
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 wisdom & wit relating to best
Jack Dempsey (2)
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
84 quotes regarding 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 thoughts about poetry
John Derek (2)
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
218 wisdom & wit relating to beauty
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 quotes about education
Charles Dickens (26)
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
249 more thoughts about aging
James Dickey (3)
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
15 more quotes relating to amazing
Emily Dickinson (26)
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
249 more quotes regarding aging
Denis Diderot (16)
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
364 thoughts relating to best
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 wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit about architecture
Everett Dirksen (3)
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
244 quotes regarding money
Walt Disney (23)
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
424 quotes about art
Benjamin Disraeli (75)
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
249 other sayings about 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 wisdom & wit about 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 sayings 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 other thoughts regarding aging
William O. Douglas (6)
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
233 more wisdom & wit 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.
138 quotes regarding being funny
Theodore Dreiser (3)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
424 thoughts relating to art
John Drinkwater (5)
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
40 more wisdom & wit about communication
Henry Drummond (4)
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
218 wisdom & wit regarding beauty
John Dryden (17)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
249 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts about education
Daphne du Maurier (2)
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
345 other quotes regarding happiness
Patrick Duffy (2)
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
38 thoughts 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 quotes regarding respect
John Foster Dulles (2)
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
184 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit about education
William Dunbar (2)
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
41 other quotes relating to the law
Isadora Duncan (5)
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
174 other quotes regarding experience
Finley Peter Dunne (3)
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
78 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 other quotes relating to aging
Jimmy Durante (2)
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
233 quotes about 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 thoughts regarding happiness
Albrecht Durer (4)
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
218 more wisdom & wit about beauty
Friedrich Durrenmatt (17)
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
249 quotes about aging
James Dyson (22)
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
249 more quotes about aging