Dave’s Daily Quotes

If I subtract my grief from my joy, what is the balance? ~ Joseph Stroud (paraphrased)

When we fall in love with someone there’s a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we are lucky, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot. ~ Jim Geoghan

It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done. ~ Debbie Macomber

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~ Lillian Dickson

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

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. ~ Susan M. Dodd

Most people don’t look dumb ’til they start talkin’. ~ Forest Gump

No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one. ~ Elbert Hubbard

A sermon can help people in different ways. Some rise from it greatly strengthened, others wake up from it greatly refreshed.

A house divided among itself is a split level. ~ Sen. J.P. Cedars

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Time tells on a man…especially a good time.

I never get lost because everyone always tells me where to go.

Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.

Live your own life for you must die your own death.

There’s no sense asking if the air’s good when there’s nothing else to breathe. (The Fountainhead ?)

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. ~ H.L. Mencken

It is not what people think, it is what they know, and most people know very little. ~ H.L. Mencken

I finally got my head together, and my body fell apart.

For best results, avoid doing stupid things.

Speak softly and carry a cellular phone.

Support search and rescue…get lost.

An English professor wrote the words, “Woman without her man is nothing” on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly. The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.” The women wrote: “Woman: Without her, man is nothing.”

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. ~ Sir Francis Bacon