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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


201. Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

202. Democritus says, But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down.

203. Demons are a Ghouls best Friend.

204. Dentist, n.:A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.

205. Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer.

206. Denying a fault doubles it.

207. Department of Redundancy Department

208. Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

209. Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. --Johann Kaspar Lavater

210. Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

211. Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

212. Dependence is a poor trade.

213. Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

214. Derangement and madness on her mind come soon ---Irish Curse

215. Desert and reward seldom keep company.

216. Design first, then code.

217. Design flaws travel in groups.

218. Designed with your mind in mind by people who have in mind what you should have in mind.

219. Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

220. Desire is the essence of a man. --Benedict Spinoza

221. Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

222. Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

223. Desires are nourished by delays.

224. Desk: A waste paper basket with drawers.

225. Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

226. Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. --Pierre Charron

227. Despair is the conclusion of fools. --Benjamin Disraeli

228. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

229. Despair Rives courage to a coward.

230. Despair ruins some, presumption many. --Benjamin Franklin

231. Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies (or cures).

232. Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

233. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli

234. Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have its place.

235. Despise not death, but welcome it, for Nature wills it like all else.

236. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

237. Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured and unsung.

238. Destiny -A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

239. Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

240. Destiny is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

241. Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

242. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

243. Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

244. Destiny, the crooked schemer, says the dead shall rise again.

245. Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. --Ambrose Bierce

246. Destiny... is not a matter of chance it's a matter of choice.

247. Destroy his liquor, and the work is done.

248. Destroy selfishness through selfless service, charity, generosity and love.

249. Develop principles that you are willing to abandon, but not easily.

250. Devil, don't you know you are as beautiful as an Angel?

251. Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

252. Devotion is love for something higher than ourselves; something that evokes our idealism; which, while we despair becoming equal to it, yet makes us aspire to become like it.

253. DeVries's Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

254. Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

255. Diamond cut diamond. (of people matched in cunning.)

256. Diamond: A chunk of coal that made it under pressure.

257. Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

258. Diamonds are forever - Hubert Oppenheimer

259. Dictatorship (n): a form of government under which everything which is not prohibited is

260. Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.--Henry Waldorf Francis

261. Did anyone see my lost carrier?

262. Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked ? - Baron Edward Thurlow.

263. Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.

264. Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?

265. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control.

266. Did you know ... That no-one ever reads these things?

267. Did you know that Friday the 13th comes on a Tuesday this month?

268. Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

269. Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do. - Lord Palmerston, last words

270. Die, v.:To stop sinning suddenly.

271. DIE..BY MY HAND.. I creep across the land

272. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.--John Barrymore - last words

273. Diet cures more than doctors.

274. Dieters - People that are thick and tired of it

275. Dieting is when the days seem longer and the meals shorter.

276. Dieting won't help him-no diet will reduce a fathead.

277. Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.

278. Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier.(God will forgive me. It's his job.)--Heinrich Heine - last words

279. Difference between a house and a home -- a family.

280. Difficult is the way, you will be given faith, and helps you to believe.

281. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. --William Ellery Channing

282. Difficulties are things that show what men are.

283. Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

284. Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

285. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. --Seneca

286. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. --Seneca

287. Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

288. Difficulty makes desire

289. Diffidence is the right eye of prudence.

290. Dig a very deep hole; fill it slowly with bullshit . . .

291. Dignity belongs to the conquered. --Kenneth Burke

292. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle

293. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.--Aristotle (384-322BC)

294. Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. --Elbert Hubbard

295. Dignity is like a top hat. Neither is very much use when you are standing on it.

296. Diligence increases the fruit of toil. A dilatory man ever wrestles with losses.

297. Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

298. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One to - day is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.

299. Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin

300. Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.


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