D-F

"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today, so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone."
-------Rodney Dangerfield

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
-------Bette Davis
children, parents, all

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.
-------Jim Davis
humor, proverb, all

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.
-------Madame Marie du Deffand
proverb, feminism, all

You need someone to love you while you're looking for someone to love.
blank--S. Delaney
proverb, all

"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points."
-------Taisen Deshimaru
science, proverb, all

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
-------Emily Dickinson

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
-------Marlene Dietrich
proverb, all

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
blank--Phyllis Diller
proverb, humor, all

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
-------Missy Dizick
humor, pets, all

I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.
blank--John Donne, "The Triple Fool"
love, humor, writing, all

Take heed of loving me.
blank--John Donne, "The Prohibition"
love, all

Beware the fury of a patient man.
-------John Dryden
proverb, all

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
-------Amelia Earhart (in a letter to her husband, before her last flight)
feminism, inspiration, all

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-------Albert Einstein
proverb, science, education, all

"I know not what weapons WWIII will be fought with, but WWIV fought with sticks and stones."
-------Albert Einstein
pacifism, proverb, all

With the stones we cast at them, genius build new roads for us.
-------Paul Eldridge
proverb, inspiration, all

"The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today."
-------Charles W. Eliot

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
blank--George Elliot
love, proverb, all

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
blank--George Elliot
love, humor, all

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense.
blank--George Elliot
writing, humor, all

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
blank--George Elliot
humor, all

Life ain't easy. But then, if it was, everybody would be doing it.
-------Harlan Ellison
humor, all

Dignity is not only knowing when to duck, it's also knowing how to look like a gourmet when you take a pie in the face.
-------Harlan Ellison
humor, all

A day without sunshine is like... night.
-------Harlan Ellison
humor, proverb, all

Did you ever notice, the only one in A Christmas Carol with an character is Scrooge? Marley is a whiner who f***ed over the world and then hadn't the spine to pay his dues quietly; Bell, Scrooge's ex-girlfriend, deserted him when he needed her most; Bob Cratchit is a gutless toady without enough get-up-and-go to assert himself; and the less said about that little treacle-mouth, Tiny Tim, the better.
blank--Harlan Ellison
humor, literature, all

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
blank--Ralph Ellison
writing, all

[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for her or his own psychoanalysis.
-------Nora Ephron
parenting, humor, all

Dullard: someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
-------Philip Jose Farmer
humor, education, all

"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied."
-------Millicent G. Fawcett

Early mornining cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
-------William Feather
humor, all

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can."
-------William Feather
life, inspiration, all

"It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive."
-------Federico Fellini
movies, inspiration, all

"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them."
-------Joanna Field
proverbs, all

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
-------Totie Fields
dieting, humor, all

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
-------Michael Flanders
humor, all

"Patience and perseverance at length / Accomplish more than anger or brute strength."
-------Jean de La Fontaine

"A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness."
-------Fontenelle
, all

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
-------Henry Ford
inspiration, all

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps."
-------Henry Ford
inspiration, all

"Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself."
-------Brendan Francis
all

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-------Saint Francis of Assisi
inspiration, all

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
-------Benjamin Franklin
proverb, all

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
-------Anna Freud
inspiration, all

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-------Milton Friedman
humor, all

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
blank--Robert Frost
writing, all

"What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-------Christopher Fry
humor, all

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armour.
blank--Margaret Fuller
love, all