Dave’s Daily Quotes

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou

Parkinson’s Law Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Throop’s Corollary To keep work from expanding to fill all your time, you must strictly limit the time available for its completion.

The real world is not user-friendly.

Why does our culture consider supervising good work more deserving of respect and compensation than doing good work?

Just because there’s twilight doesn’t mean you can’t tell the difference between night and day.

Rules are solutions to yesterday’s problems.

A life consisting exclusively of things that are Good For You is bad for you.

Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists. ~ Kelvin R. Throop III

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ~Saint Jerome

Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man’s world.  ~ Richard Armour

Q: What do you get when you cross an ethernet with an income statement? A: A local area networth.

Oh yeah, life goes on Long after the thrill Of living is gone. ~ John Cougar Mellencamp

Man has only those rights he can defend.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ~ Henry Kissinger

I don’t think the world should be made so safe that we lose the educational benefits of consequences. ~ Virgil Elliot

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. ~ Dan Bennett

More is better, and even more is even better. ~ John Jacob Astor

Sex is not the most important thing in the world, but it ain’t third or fourth, either. ~ Joe E. Lewis

At times I think and at times I am. ~ Paul Valery

If you start out depressed, everything is kind of like a pleasant surprise. ~ Lloyd Dobler (“Say Anything”)

Your opinion of me has no cash value. ~ Uncle Andre (“We’re No Angels”)

The more you have, the more you want … but the less you have, the wider the selection.

We’re here for a good time, not a long time. ~ Trooper