Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 23, 2014
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)  
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line  
There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)  
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)  
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