Dave’s Daily Quotes

Sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should. ~ Abraham Maslow

It’s an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn’t had a birthday in seven years. ~ Robert Orben

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ J.D. Salinger

The only advice I ever got from my dad is this:  sex is like pizza, even when it’s bad you still gotta pay for it. ~ Nick DiPaolo

Everybody wants to save the world but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes. ~ P.J. O’Rourke

You know, there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time–husband! ~ Bill Maher

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. ~ Ram Das

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. ~ Confucius

Congressmen don’t need book marks; they like their pages bent over.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ~ John Wooden

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called “here.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

When we die, what we did for ourselves dies with us. What we did for the world and for others, lives on.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with dirty feet. ~ Gandhi

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. ~ Thomas Jefferson

So many candles… so little cake.    ++

A man is tweeting the Bible one line at a time. This is actually not so far off from how the Israelites first received the word of God, which Moses had to painstakingly carry down Mt. Sinai on thousands of stone tablets that could only fit 140 words each.

When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.

No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.

An alarm clock is a device for awakening people who don’t have small children.