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~~ 801 to 900 ~~

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


801. Don't worry about temptationas you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

802. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

803. Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.

804. Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

805. Don't worry too much about what people think, because they seldom do.

806. Don't worry, this is not a hoax. It's a fork in the Yellow Brick Road.

807. Don't wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it.

808. Don't you just hate rhetorical questions?

809. Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me. Mark Twain, from Home Conditions , referring to a saying from his Grandmother

810. Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you--and kill you the long, slow, hard way.--Billie Holiday,

811. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

812. Doth not the sun harden the clay? Doth it not also soften the wax? As it is one sun that worketh both, even so it is one Soul that willeth contrarieties.

813. Double your drive space - delete Windows!

814. Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

815. Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

816. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. --Kahlil Gibran

817. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

818. Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.--Voltaire

819. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

820. Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. --George Iles

821. Doubt is the father of invention. Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

822. Doubt is the key to knowledge.

823. Doubt is the opposite of belief.

824. Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.

825. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.

826. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is at horn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

827. Doubt thou the stars are fire! Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

828. Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

829. 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.

830. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone.

831. Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

832. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat."--Samuel Butler

833. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

834. Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

835. Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

836. Down with gravity.

837. Dr Livingstone, I presume?

838. Dr. Caligari's Comeback: A bad sector disk error occurs only after you've done several hours of work without performing a backup.

839. Dr. livingstone, I presume ? - Henry Morton Stanley (Later commented that he couldn't think of anything else to say.)

840. Drat

841. Draff is good enough for swine.

842. Draw her butt!' 'Maybe she doesn't have one.'

843. Draw in the breath of life, and as you breathe, smile. -- Anonymous

844. Draw the curtain, the fraud is over. Rabelais, last words

845. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. --Robert Benchley

846. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."-- Robert Benchley

847. Drawn wells are seldom dry. (=Things are improved by use.)

848. Drawn wells have sweetest water.

849. Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star.-- from the Musical The Man of La Mancha based on the book Don

850. Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a genius.

851. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. --Charles William Dement

852. Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

853. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

854. Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

855. Dreams are mere productions of the brain, And fools consult interpreters in vain.

856. Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. --Benjamin Rush

857. Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?

858. Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

859. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

860. Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations; but there is Art required to sort and understand them.

861. Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

862. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

863. Dreams go by contraries.

864. Dreams have as much influence as actions.

865. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.--Frank W. Woolworth

866. Dree out (endure) the inch as you have done the span.

867. Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.

868. Drift is as bad as unthrift.

869. Drifting further every day

870. Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.

871. Drilling for oil is boring.

872. Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.

873. Drink it up and don't let it come back.

874. Drink nothing without seeing it; Sign nothing without reading it. Spanish Proverb

875. Drink only with the duck. (Water only.)

876. Drink to me.--Pablo Picasso - last words

877. Drink wet cement and get really stoned.

878. Drink wine, and have the gout; drink none, and have the gout.

879. Drinking doesn't just drown his troubles-it irrigates them.

880. Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

881. Drive carefully, death is so permanent.

882. Drive defensively -- buy a tank.

883. Drive out fear.

884. Drive the nail that will go.

885. Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

886. Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.--Antonio Gramsci

887. Drugs are reality's legal loopholes. - Jeremy Preston Johnson

888. Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.

889. Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.

890. Drunken folks seldom take harm,

891. Drunkenness and anger, 'tis said tell the truth

892. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.

893. Ducharme's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

894. Ducharme's Precept: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.

895. Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognise yourself as part of the problem.

896. Duct tape is like the force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

897. Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.

898. Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul.

899. Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

900. Dulce bellum inexpertis. (War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.)--Erasmus Rotterdamus, Adagia


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