1,000,001 Things I Wish I Had Said First



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Darling, you stink so beautiful.

          Michael Curtiz


Democracy is the theory that the People know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

          H. L. Mencken


Depositing the room key into another person is prohibited.

          sign displayed in a Japanese hotel


Did you get a good look at my face when I took your purse?

          accused thief


Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

          Seneca


Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

          anonymous


Do not look at me in that tone of voice.

          Thaddeus Caraway


Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

          unknown


Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give the signal.

          Dwight Eisenhower


Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads--they are not there accidentally.

          Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930s


Do the thing and you will have the power.

          Ralph Waldo Emerson


Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

          Mark Twain


Do you mean to tell me that the people of San Francisco are drinking water after all the electricity has been taken out of it?

          James McSheehy


Don't accept rides from strange men--and remember that all men are strange as hell.

          Robin Morgan


Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

          David Lloyd George


Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

          B. C. Forbes


Don't pay any attention to the critics--don't even ignore them.

          Samuel Goldwyn


Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

          Laurence Coughlin


Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

          Howard Aiken


DOOR is an opening through which people enter and leave a room or building.

          The World Book Encyclopedia, 1985


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

          Benjamin Franklin


Dreaded veal cutlet with potatoes in cream

          menu item from Shangri-la Restaurant


Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

          James Dean


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

          Havelock Ellis


Drink to me.

          Pablo Picasso, last words


Drinking is the cause of psoriasis.

          Donna Shalala


Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

          Horace


Drug Store Body. Let's get the Good Shape and have a sexy body just like a pig.

          slogan on a pair of Japanese overalls


Duct tape is like the force: it has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the galaxy together.

          anonymous


Dude, we are so out of here.

          student after JAPN 202 final


Due to a typing error, Gov. Dukakis was incorrectly identified in the third paragraph as Mike Tyson.

          Fitchburg-Leominster (Mass.) Sentinel and Enterprise


During state of national emergency resulting from enemy attack, the essential functions of the Service will be as follows: (1) assessing, collecting, and recording taxes . . .

          Internal Revenue Service Handbook, 1976