Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 20, 2015
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Dick Gregory (1932 - )  
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)  
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)  
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken  
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