Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 27, 2015
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974), Goldwyn's Law of Contracts  
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )  
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)  
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
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Floyd Dell  
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