Dave’s Daily Quotes

Motherhood.  If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!

Hypochondriac (n):  a sick person whose affliction is a healthy imagination.

The most common cause of insufficient results is insufficient action. ~ Brian Koslow

Even if the voices are not real they have some pretty good ideas.     ++

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it. ~ Don Marquis

Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things.  One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, dirty thing on the face of the earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~ Butch Hancock

Dance is the only art form where the artist is also the medium of expression.

I wanna sleep beneath peaceful skies In my lover’s bed With this wide open country in my heart And these romantic dreams in my head. ~ Bruce Springsteen

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson

There are two ways of spreading light:  to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Everybody’s a self-made man, but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.    ++

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius    ++

You may delay, but time will not. ~ Benjamin Franklin    ++

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers. ~ Robert Heinlein

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

While money doesn’t buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Don’t worry what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously. ~ Francis Bacon

A man’s best friend is his dog, and his worst enemy, his dogma.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. ~ Thornton Wilder     ++

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it. ~ Ilka Chase

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts:  anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance. ~ Arnold Gingrich