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Hannah Arendt, "Between Past and Future"
categories: Art and Culture
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
categories: Health and Alcohol
3. "Custom reconciles us to everything."
Edmund Burke
categories: Manners and Ethics
4. "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Lillian Hellman, "The Little Foxes"
categories: Truth and Falsity
5. "Cynicism is humour in ill health."
Herbert George Wells
categories: Wit and Humor
6.
"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."
Scott Adams
categories: Various
Mark Twain
categories: Life and Death -:- Love
8. "Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music."
George Bernard Shaw
categories: Art and Culture -:- Dreams and Desires
9. "Danger is next neighbour to security."
English proverb
categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Various
10. "Danger past, God forgotten."
proverb
categories: God and Religion
11. "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."
Friedrich von Schiller
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Dreams and Desires
12. "Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
Marshall McLuhan, "Through the Vanishing Point"
categories: Various
13. "Dead fish go with the flow... but I'm not dead yet."
Anon.
categories: Various
Anon.
categories: God and Religion
15. "Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."
Margaret Mitchell, "Gone with the Wind"
categories: Time and Passing -:- Various
16. "Death cancels all engagments."
Sir Max Beerbohm
categories: Life and Death
17. "Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."
St. Ambrose, "De bono mortis"
categories: Justice -:- Life and Death
William Somerset Maugham
categories: Life and Death
19. "Death is life's way of telling you you're fired."
Anon.
categories: Life and Death
20. "Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life."
Amos Traver
categories: Life and Death
21. "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
Rabindranath Tagore
categories: Life and Death
22. "Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
Plato, "Laws"
categories: Life and Death
Epicurus
categories: Life and Death
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
categories: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing
25. "Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope."
William Hazlitt
categories: Life and Death -:- Optimism and Hope
26. "Death is the most blessed dream."
Georg Büchner, "Leonce and Lena"
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death
Kazimierz Matan
categories: Life and Death
28. "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
Socrates
categories: Life and Death
William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
categories: Life and Death
30. "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
Joseph Stalin
categories: Life and Death -:- Question and Problem
Benjamin Franklin
categories: Life and Death
Mark Twain, "Mark Twain's Notebook"
categories: Life and Death
33. "Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."
Anon.
categories: Defeates and Mistakes
34. "Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
categories: Peace and War -:- Various
35. "Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
Henry Louis Mencken
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
36. "Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."
Anon.
categories: Authority, Government -:- Intellect, Judgement -:- Politics and Diplomacy
37. "Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Henry Louis Mencken
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
38. "Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."
Henry Louis Mencken
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"
categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Youth and Age
40. "Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance."
Henry Louis Mencken
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
41. "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
Clement Attlee
categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
categories: Authority, Government -:- Education
43. "Depression is anger without enthusiasm."
Anon.
44. "Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Rollo May
categories: Various
45. "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."
Henri Matisse
categories: Happiness -:- Work and Laziness
Napoleon Hill
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Success and Fame
47. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."
Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia
48. "Despair is the shortest road to disaster."
Kazimierz Matan
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Pain and Tears -:- Optimism and Hope
49. "Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."
J. K. Rowling
categories: Destiny and Fate
50. "Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering."
Harriet Rosenstein
categories: Destiny and Fate
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