Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 25, 2016
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
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David Letterman (1947 - )  
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"  
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Shana Alexander  
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII  
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