Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 17, 2016
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)  
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)  
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum  
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
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