Dave’s Daily Quotes

Unquestionably there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ~ H. L. Mencken  

Fools rush in where fools have been before.  

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. ~ Karl Kraus  

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ~ Honore de Balzac

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ~ Peter DeVries  

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~ Victor Hugo  

The saddest moment of a person’s life comes but once.  

Those who talk by the yard and listen by the inch should be kicked by the foot.  

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking being done by cowards and its fighting by fools. ~ Thucydides  

If your company is stupid enough to be run by a committee, be on that committee.~ Anonymous

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. ~ Milton Friedman  

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. . ~ Milton Friedman  

Government never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual’s own good. ~ John Stuart Mill  

The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay…

Any problem you can solve with a check isn’t a problem, it’s an expense. ~ Milton Friedman (?)  

If there are things about a job candidate you don’t like, you will like them even less after you hire him. ~ Anonymous  

I went to a seafood dance party last week and pulled a mussel.  

I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.  ~ Steven Wright   Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?  ~ Steven Wright   Isn’t Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?  ~ Steven Wright   How come abbreviated is such a long word?  ~…

Why are they called apartments when they’re all stuck together?  ~ Steven Wright  

I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.  ~ Steven Wright  

How should we train memory to learn to forget? ~ Stanislaw J. Lec  

What do I believe? I believe in God, if He exists. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec  

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec  

If you give some bosses an inch they think they’re a ruler.  

Implement now, perfect later. ~ Larry Winget