Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 31, 2014
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)  
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)  
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
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Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)  
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