Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 05, 2015
Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon  
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
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Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)  
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction  
I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
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Ellen DeGeneres  
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