Dave’s Daily Quotes

  • Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ~ Malcolm Forbes  

  • An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ~ Henry Ford  

  • Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. ~ Mark Twain

  • Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ~ Oscar Wilde

  • A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde  

  • Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. ~ Samuel Johnson  

  • All things are difficult before they are easy. ~ Thomas Fuller  

  • All men desire knowledge. ~ Aristotle  

  • You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ~ Albert Camus  

  • Brevity

    The Lord’s Prayer: 66 words Archimedes’ Principle: 67 words The Ten Commandments: 179 words Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: 286 words The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words The U.S. government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words  

  • Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts–as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. ~ Herbert Spencer  

  • My wife only has two complaints.  Nothing to wear and not enough closet space.  

  • Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth…AMEN.  

  • Did you ever notice:  When you put the two words ‘The’ and ‘IRS’ together it spells ‘Theirs…’    ++  

  • Did you ever notice:  The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are XL.  

  • The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.  

  • A penny saved is a government oversight.  

  • I was only looking at your nametag, honest!  

  • Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.  

  • The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard! ~ Alfred E. Neuman  

  • These days, the only time politicians tell the truth is when they call each other a liar. ~ Alfred E. Neuman  

  • Politicians are people who get sworn in and cursed out! ~ Alfred E. Neuman  

  • Honestly, I love every single some of you.  

  • If I see one of those “Baby on Board” signs in a parked car on a hot day, am I morally obligated to break into the car?  

  • Life has no remote.  Get up and change it yourself.  

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