Douglas, Kirk

If you become a success, you don't change everyone else does.

success


Douglas, Norman

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

wisdom


Drummond, William

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

study


Dryden, John

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

ambition


Dryden, John

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

argument


Dryden, John

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

beauty


Dryden, John

Honor is but an empty bubble.

honor


Dryden, John

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

passion


Dryden, John

Beware the fury of a patient man.

patience


Dryden, John

Dancing is the poetry of the feet.

poetry


Dryden, John

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

speech


Dryden, John

And plenty makes us poor.

wealth


Dryden, John

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

words


Duchess of Windsor

It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have.

beauty


Duell, Charles H.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

change


Anouilh, Jean

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

life


Dukes, Andy

Character is who you are when no one but GOD is looking.

character


Dulles, John Foster

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

ability


Dumas, Alexander

Business? it?s quite simple: it?s other people?s money.

business


Dumas, Alexander

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

marriage


Dumas, Alexandre

Nothing succeeds like success.

success


Dumas, Alexandre (p?re)

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

doubt


Dunlop, Jane

The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions.

change


Dunn, Elizabeth Clark

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

change


Dupuy, Alexis

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

marriage


Durant, Will

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

morals


Dylan, Bob

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

individuality


Anspacher, Louis

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

marriage


Eddings, David

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

inspiration


Eddings, David

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

learning


Eddy, Mary Baker

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

health


Edelman, Marion Wright

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

inspiration


Edinborough, Arnold

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

animals


Edison, Thomas A.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

science


Edison, Thomas A.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

work


Edwards, Bob

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

ability


Edwards, Tyron

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

age


Edwards, Tyron

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

doubt


Edwards, Tyron

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

wealth


Einstein, Albert

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

age


Einstein, Albert

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

american


Einstein, Albert

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

animals


Einstein, Albert

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

change


Einstein, Albert

Education is a series of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.

education


Einstein, Albert

If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

government


Einstein, Albert

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

imagination


Einstein, Albert

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

inspiration


Einstein, Albert

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

inspiration


Einstein, Albert

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

inspiration


Einstein, Albert

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.

love


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