Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 21, 2016
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
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Jean Kerr  
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)  
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
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John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)  
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