Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 09, 2015
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)  
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)  
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)  
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview  
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