Dave’s Daily Quotes

Don’t wait to make your son a great man–make him a great boy.

What is genius?  It is the power to be a boy again at will. ~ James Matthew Barrie

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~ Ed Howe

The real problem concerning your leisure is how to keep other people from using it.

There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance can be cured by learning and reading. Stupidity isn’t willing to be cured.

There is never a right way to do the wrong thing.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~ Elie Wiesel

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ~ Confucius

The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page. ~ Augustine

I want to thank you for the privilege of speaking in this beautiful auditorium today.  You know the meaning of the word “auditorium?”  It comes from two Latin words:  “Audio” meaning “to hear,” and “taurus,” meaning “bull.”

They have all sorts of new services today. Now they’ve got a dial-a-prayer service for atheists. You call a number and nobody answers.

The tip you leave now for lunch would have bought you one twenty years ago.

Three shortest books: 1) A guide to Arab democracies 2) Everything men know about women 3) The Amish phonebook

The secret of happiness is to admire without desire.

There was a guy telling his friend that he and his wife had a serious argument the night before. “But it ended,” he said, “When she came crawling to me on her hands and knees.” “What did she say?” asked the friend. The husband replied, “She said, ‘come out from under that bed, you coward!’”   …

There is nothing wrong in having nothing to say, unless you insist on saying it.

There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money. ~ William Weld

There is no future in spending the present worrying about the past.     ++

Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ~ Anonymous

Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us that when one weeps, the other will taste salt.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ~ Victor Hugo

Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone. ~ Anonymous

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg

I’m not a leftist; I’m where the righteous ought to be. ~ M.M. Coady

It’s an age-old truism. Men will quickly fall asleep after having sex. And I know why, too. It’s because they’ve been up half the night begging for it.