Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 23, 2014
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)  
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)  
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
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Mike Myers  
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