Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 24, 2015
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)  
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"  
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
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Emo Phillips  
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"  
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