Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 07, 2015
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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William James (1842 - 1910)  
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985)  
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)  
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