Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 03, 2015
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
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Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)  
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)  
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
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H. E. Martz  
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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