=Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth / In strange eruptions, and the teeming earth / Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd / By the imprisoning of unruly wind / Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving, / Shakes the old bedlam earth, and topples down / Steeples and moss-grown towers.= _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Diseases, desperate grown, / By desperate appliance are relieved, / Or not at all.= _Ham._, iv. 3.
=Diseur de bons mots=--A sayer of good things; 15 a would-be wit. _Fr._
=Diseuse de bonne aventure=--A mere fortune-teller. _Fr._
=Disgrace consists infinitely more in the crime than in the punishment.= _Bacon._
=Disguise our bondage as we will, / 'Tis woman, woman rules us still.= _Moore._
=Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, thou art a bitter draught.= _Sterne._
=Dishonesty is the forsaking of permanent for= 20 =temporary advantages.= _Bovee._
=Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them.= _Bovee._
=Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.= _Dickens._
=Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain / Should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the crime / Of cowards.= _C. Johnson._
=Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.=
=Disjecti membra poetæ=--Limbs of the dismembered poet. _Hor._
=Disjice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli=--Dash the patched-up peace, sow the seeds of wicked war. _Virg._
=Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery; / For where a heart is hard, they make no battery.= _Shakespeare._
=Disobedience is the beginning of evil and the broad way to ruin.= _D. Davies._
=Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an= 30 =antiquary's study, not; the black stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.= _Ruskin._
=Disorder is dissolution, death.= _Carlyle._
=Disorder makes nothing at all, but unmakes everything.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Disponendo me, non mutando me=--By displacing, not by changing me. _M._
=Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies=--The itch for controversy is the scab of the Church. _Wotton._
=Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, /= 35 =Unseen they rise, but gather as they run.= _Garth._