Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 02, 2016
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
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William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959  
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Anatole France (1844 - 1924)  
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
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Cyra McFadden  
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