Dave’s Daily Quotes

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance, I hope you dance. ~ Lee Anne Womak (“I Hope You Dance”)

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ~ Pablo Neruda

If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. ~ Shane Koyczan (?)

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.  Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ~ Samuel Johnson

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein

Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. ~ Chinese proverb

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin’ too. ~ B.B. King

I can explain it for you, but I can’t understand it for you. ~ Anonymous

Dictatorship (n):  a form of government under which everything which is not prohibited is compulsory. ~ Anonymous

Do not write so that you can be understood; write so that you cannot be misunderstood. ~ Epictetus

Adventure:  the land between entertainment and panic. ~ Anonymous

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing Watch you smile while you are sleeping While you’re far away and dreaming I could spend my life in this sweet surrender I could stay lost in this moment forever Every moment spent with you Is a moment I treasure. ~ Aerosmith (“I Don’t Want to…

I drifted into photography the way one drifts into prostitution.  First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends… and eventually I did it for money. ~ Philippe Halsman

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E. L. Doctorow

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. ~ Bill Hicks

You make the world you move through as you move through the world that makes you. ~ Anonymous

Look it up, you’ll remember it longer.  Screw it up, and you’ll remember it forever! ~ Anonymous

Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anybody’s ego. ~ Anonymous

Commute, work, commute, sleep, commute, work, commute, sleep . . .

In a society that has abolished all adventure, the only adventure left is to abolish that society. ~ Anonymous

The cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property. ~ St. Augustine

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.  ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~ Henrik Ibsen