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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
302. Dinners cannot be long where dainties want.
303. Diplomacy -- the art of letting someone have your way.
304. Diplomacy ... the art of restraining power.
305. Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war. --Randolph Bourne
306. Diplomacy is the art of giving others your way.
307. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way
308. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. --Daniele Vare
309. Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie until you can find a rock.
310. Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. --Isaac Goldberg
311. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.--Kofi Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana
312. Diplomacy....the art of letting someone have your way.
313. Diplomacy: lying in state. --Oliver Herford
314. Diplomat: an unwise thing to call Knuckles Lomat.
315. Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. --Will Rogers
316. Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
317. Dire revenge comes after not being allowed decent entry and fair play.
318. Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
319. Discipline is the best tool.
320. Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
321. Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
322. Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. --Henry H. Haskins
323. Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. --Oscar Wilde
324. Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied, Poor cracklin joints, and wither'd parchment hide, As if old Drums, worn out with martial din, Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
325. Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
326. Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
327. Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.
328. Discression is the better part of valor.
329. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
330. Discretion is the better part of velour.
331. Discretion is the better part of virtue, Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you. --Ogden Nash 1902-1971 from The Old Dog Barks Backwards [1972]
332. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
333. Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
334. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or good order. ---(CHESTERFIELD).
335. Disdain your enemy's boasting, but pay heed to your friend's advice.
336. Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes. --Samuel Johnson
337. Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
338. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. --Hosea Ballou
339. Diseases are often cured Never fate.
340. Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
341. Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
342. Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.
343. Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
344. Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. --George Bancroft
345. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
346. Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.--George A. Knight
347. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.--Euripides (480-406BC)
348. Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
349. Dissembled sin is double wickedness.
350. Dissension, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
351. Dissent does not include the freedom to destroy the system of law which guarantees freedom to speak, assemble and march in protest. Dissent is not anarchy. --Seymour F. Simon
352. Distance - the only thing the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
353. Distance is a great promoter of admiration! -- Denis Diderot
354. Distance lends enhancement to the view.
355. Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
356. Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
357. Distress, n.:A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
358. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
359. Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
360. Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
361. Divide et impera.-Divide and rule.
362. Divine Gift-love - Love Himself working in a man - is wholly disinterested and desires what is simply best for the beloved... Divine gift-love in the man enables him to love what is not naturally lovable; lepers, criminals, enemies, marons, the sulky, the superior and the sneering.
363. Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
364. Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. --George MacDonald
365. Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, With all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. -- John Wesley
366. Do and undo, the day is long enough.
367. Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. --William Ellery Channing
368. Do as I say, not as I do.
369. Do as most men do, and men will speak well of you.
370. Do as you would be done by.
371. Do as you're bidden and you'll never bear blame,
372. Do evil and look for the like.
373. Do God's will as if it were thy will, and he will accomplish thy will as if it were his own.
374. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ---(POPE).
375. Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
376. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
377. Do it as if there was fire in your skin
378. Do it do it right do it right now
379. Do it only with the best.
380. Do it today, tomorrow it will be bad for your health or illegal.
381. Do it well that thou mayest not do it twice.
382. Do molecular biologists wear designer genes?
383. Do more than is expected.
384. Do nice things for people who'll never find out.
385. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. Samuel Johnson
386. Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.
387. Do not all you can; spend not all you have; belive not all you hear; and tell not all you know.
388. Do not allow anger to poison you. (Hopi)
389. Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Miscellaneous Proverb
390. Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
391. Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger; do not comfort him while the dead is still laid out before him; do not question him in the hour of his vow; and do not strive to see him in his hour of misfortune.
392. Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.--Dogen
393. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
394. Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. --Stewart E. White
395. Do not bathe if there is no water. Shan Proverb
396. Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
397. Do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will have anxieties of it's own. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
398. Do not be deceived by this technological terror you have created. The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared with the power of the Force.--Darth Vader in "STAR WARS"
399. Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. English Proverb
400. Do not be talkative in an alehouse