Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 20, 2009
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
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