DANCING
♠ Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself – Havelock Ellis
DANGER
♠ We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger – Corneille
♠ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courgeous person afterwards – Jean Paul Richter
DAUGHTER
♠ If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter – Quarles
DAY
♠ When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets – Friedrich Nietzche
DEATH
♠ O Death ! the poor man’s dearest friend The kindest and the best – Burns
♠ When life is woe, And hope is dumb, The World says, “GO!” The Grave says, “Come!” – Arthur Guiterman
♠ Pale Death, with impartial step, knocks at the poor man’s cottage and the palaces of kings – Horace
♠ After life’s fitful fever, he sleep well; Treason has done his worst; nor steel nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further – Shakespeare
♠ The weariest and most loathed wordly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death – Shakespeare
♠ Death is here and death is there, Death is busy everywhere, All around, within, beneath, Above is death – and we are death – Shelly
♠ First our Pleasure die – and then Our hopes, and then our fears- and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust-and we die too – Shelly
♠ Nothing can happen more beautiful than death – Walt Whitman
♠ We don’t know life : how we know death ? - Confucius
♠ As a well - spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death – Leonardo Da Vinci
DECEIT
♠ You can fool some of the people all of time , but you cannot fool all of the people all the time – Lincoln
DEEDS
♠ How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world – Shakespeare
♠ The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison – air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there – Oscar Wilde
DELIGHT
♠ Energy is Eternal Delight – William Blake
♠ My delight and thy delight Walking , like two angels white, In the gardens of the night – Robert Bridges
DEMOCRACY
♠ That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth – Lincoln
♠ The world must be safe for democracy – Woodrow Wilson
♠ Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometime more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, if he be a tyrant – Benito Mussolini
♠ Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people – Harry Emerson Fosdick
♠ Democracy means not “I am as good as you are” but You are as good as I am” – Theodore Parker
Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic – Rousseau
♠ Two cheers for democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism – E.M.Forster
♠ Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us – Samuel Johnson
♠ He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence – William Blake
DESTINY
♠ No man or women born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny – Homer
DEVIL
♠ The devil can cite scripture for his purpose – Shakespeare
♠ The devil and me, We don’t agree; I hate him; and he hates me – Slavation Army Hymn
DHARMA
♠ Thou art the fiery spirit, give me that spirit (tejas) . Thou art valour, give me valour. Thou art strength, give me strength, thou art power, give me power. Thou art wrath (manyu),give me wrath. Thou art conquering might; give me that night – Yajurveda
♠ Take the precept to abstain from killing. Take the precept to abstain from stealing. Take the precept top abstain from adultery. Take the Precept to abstain from lying. Take the precept to abstain from liquor – Lord Buddha
♠ The Ocean is the goal of all the streams and of the rains from the clouds, yet it is never overflowing and never emptied so dharma is embraced by many millions of people, yet it neither increase nor decrease – Lord Buddha
DICTATORSHIP
♠ The fuehrer is the party and the party is the Fuehrer. Just as I feel myself only as a part of the party, the party feels itself only as a part of me – Adolf Hitler
♠ The ultimate failure of dictatorship cost humanity far more than any temporary failure of democracy – Franklin D.Roosevelt
DIFFICULTY
♠ Many things difficult to design prove easy to Performance – Samuel Johnson
DIGNITY
♠ No race can prosper till it learn that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem – Booker T. Washington
DINING
♠ He may live without books – What is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope – What is hope but deceiving? He may live without love – what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining? – Owen Meredith
DIPLOMACY
♠ Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way – Issac Goldberg
DISAPPOINTMENT
♠ Disappointment is the nurse of Wisdom – Sir Boyle Roche
DISCREATION
♠ The better part of valour is discreation – Shakespeare
DIVINE
♠ Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched – Victor
DOG
♠ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference dog and a man – Mark Twain
♠ The more once come to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog – Joussenei
♠ The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites – Quintus Curtius Rufus
♠ Every dog must have his day - Swift
DOING
♠ The doer alone learneth – Friedrich Nietszche
♠ He who wants to do everything will never do anything – Andre Maurois
DREAM
♠ Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream – Anatole France
♠ An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world – George Santayana
♠ The best way to make your dream come true is to wake up – J.M.P
DRESS
♠ Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others – Franklin
DRINKING
♠ If ever I marry a wife, I’ll marry a landlord’s daughter, For then I may sit in the bar, And drink cold brandy and water - Charles Lamb
♠ But liquor Is quicker – Ogden Nash
♠ Drink! For you know not whence you came, nor why; Drink! For you know not why you go, nor where – Omar Khayyam
♠ Drunkenness is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness – Bertrand Russel
♠ Water is the only drink for a wise man – Thoreau
♠ Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness – Seneca
♠ Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable – G.K Chesterton
DUTY
♠ I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty – Ellen S Hooper
♠ England expects every man to his duty – Lord Nelson
♠ Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it – Lincoln
♠ Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory – Tennyson
♠ The true source of right is duty. IF we all discharge our duties, right will not be far to seek - Gandhi
DYING
♠ If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry, nature herself will teach you in the proper time; she will discharge that work for you; don’t trouble yourself – Montaigne
♠ We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well – George Macdonald
♠ You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist – Neale Donald Walsch
