Dave’s Daily Quotes

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick  

Did you hear about the baby born in the high-tech delivery room?  It was cordless.  

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~ Gene Fowler

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either. ~ Robert Graves

Time is the thief you cannot banish. ~ Phyllis McGinley    

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson  

Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. ~ Billie Holiday

A man walks into a doctor’s office.  He has a cucumber up his nose, a carrot in his left ear and a banana in his right ear.  “So Doc, what do you think is the matter with me?” he asks. The doctor says, “You’re not eating properly.”  

I woke up this morning and felt so bad that I tried to kill myself by taking 1,000 aspirin.  After the first two, I felt better!  

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry…Yesterday and Tomorrow.  ~ Robert Jones Burdette  

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor.  “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.”  ~ E.B. White  

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.  ~ Montaigne  

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it. ~ Kenneth Bancroft Clark

It’s not the voting that’s democracy–it’s the counting. ~ Tom Stoppard

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~ W. H. Auden

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~ Usman B. Asif

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.  Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it.  Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it.  Bitterness sickens life; love heals it.  Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life comes with an expiration date.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. ~ Raymond Mortimer    ++

Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child’s room late at night hates Lego’s.  ~  Tony Kornheiser

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. ~ Oscar Levant