Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 01, 2015
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"  
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)  
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)  
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