Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 23, 2014
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)  
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)  
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963  
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