Dave’s Daily Quotes

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ~ Benjamin Franklin

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.  ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Gustav Jung

Not every closed eye is sleeping; not every open eye is seeing.  ~ Bill Cosby

A short pencil is more reliable then the longest memory.

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead. ~ Anamaniacs

A woman’s heart is like a campfire; if you don’t tend it often the flame will go out. ~ Willie M. Lawrence

Success doesn’t make happiness.  Happiness makes success.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. ~ Gypsy Smith

We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. ~ Eric Hoffer

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ~ Henry Kissinger

The principal part of faith is patience.

Wives often object to life insurance, widows never do.

Hell has no exits. Heaven needs none.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not…

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. ~ Ralph Waldo  Emerson

Flattery looks like friendship; a wolf looks like a dog.

What is reading, but silent conversation. ~ Charles Lamb

Every day there’s sad news and bad news, but each day itself is glad news.

Love:  the only game two can play and both can win.

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~ Oscar Wilde

No one would remember the good Samaritan if he had only good intentions.  He had money as well. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Nothing seems to bring on an emergency as quickly as putting money aside in case of one.