Dave’s Daily Quotes

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~ Charles Kingsley

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds—he’s walking on them. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. ~ Jean Cocteau

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. ~ Jean Kerr

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks. ~ Jean Kerr

When the grandmothers of today hear the word “Chippendales,” they don’t necessarily think of chairs. ~ Jean Kerr

Listen if you want to be heard. ~ John Wooden

It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. ~ John Wooden

I never saw a Purple Cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one. ~ Gelett Burgess

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. ~ L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

One picture is worth a thousand words. ~ Frederick R. Barnard, “Printers’ Ink” March 10, 1927

A group of young men broke into a drugstore yesterday and stole the entire stock of Viagra.  Police are on the look-out for a gang of hardened criminals. ~ Anonymous

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least someone is listening. ~ Franklin Jones

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments–there are consequences. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history. ~ Ray Bradbury

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts. ~ Albert Einstein

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. ~ Woodrow Wilson

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system. ~ P.J. O’Rourke

There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there. ~ Robert Orben

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane. ~ Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ~ Abraham Maslow