Dave’s Daily Quotes

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors. ~ Henry Becque  

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. ~ Hasidic Proverb  

No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother’s affair. ~ Margaret Trumbull  

They are able because the think they are able. ~ Virgil  

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ~ Jean Paul Sartre  

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ~ Benjamin Disraeli  

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith  

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a “realist” he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing. ~ Sydney Harris  

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ C.S. Lewis  

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. ~ Georges Pompidou  

You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald  

Where you invest your love, you invest your life. ~ Mumford and Sons  

…and I wonder during these days how God felt when He lost His son. ~ Kyle Matthews

It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. ~ William Faulkner  

I’m so old they’ve canceled my blood type. ~ Bob Hope    ++  

Money is just the poor man’s credit card. ~ Marshall McLuhan  

Achievement brings its own anticlimax. ~ Maya Angelou  

Age considers; youth ventures. ~ Rabindranath Tagore  

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee    ++  

Good men have the fewest fears.  He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee  

Television:  A three- to four- to five-hour experience with nothingness. ~ Frederic Glezer  

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~ Thomas Caruthers    ++  

I see your IQ test results were negative.  ++  

Vermont, admitted as the 14th state in 1791, was the 1st addition to the original 13 colonies.  Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.