Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 19, 2016
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)  
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)  
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)  
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary  
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