Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 13, 2016
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946  
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
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James Thorpe (1888 - 1953)  
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)  
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7  
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