Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 25, 2015
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30  
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)  
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)  
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)  
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