Quotes on "D"

DEATH

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Sleep is lovely, death better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner

DEBT

A man properly must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
John Barrymore

DEMOCRACY

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

The worship of jackals by jackasses.
H.L. Mencken

DIARY

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.
Mae West

DIPLOMACY

The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy- give one and take ten.
Mark Twain

DISHONESTY

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he is a crook.
Mark Twain

DISTRUST

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams

DOCTORS

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamine Franklin

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyres merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Anton Chekhov

DOGS

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andrew A. Rooney

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs.
Karl Kraus

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley

DRINKING

I envy people who drink- at least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
George Jean Nathan

So who's in a hurry?
Robert Benchley in response to a warning that drinking is "slow poison."

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