Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 10, 2009
I felt like poisoning a monk.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
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Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925

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